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<blockquote data-quote="Notedstrangeperson" data-source="post: 56166721" data-attributes="member: 227984"><p>I've seen this argument before. Why it it acceptable for atheist organisations to 'deprogram' people into rejecting belief, but it is not OK for theist organisations to encourage belief? Why is one form brainwashing and the other is education?</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Because knowledge - including God's message - should not be confined to society's elite. It applies to everyone, including (indeed <em>especially</em>) the common man. Giving it only to people deemed 'good enough' is what leads to dictatorships, including theocracies.</p><p> </p><p>----</p><p> </p><p>To answer OPs question: one theory is that we are programmed for belief because we have an uncanny ability to 'recognise' human features in innanimate objects, to anthropomorphize almost anything. Because of this, so many things seem humanised it gives the impression that the world and everything in it was created by some kind of 'super-human'. The world looks designed, so somebody must have designed it.</p><p> </p><p>Now, not surprisingly perhaps, I don't agree with this theory. We still seem to have this presumption that everything - including belief - is something physical which if necessary be can be cut out, removed from life. Once we know what it is we can get rid of it. The idea does not only apply to religion. The Soviet Union misused psychiatry to label anybody with 'outlandish' ideas as mentally ill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Notedstrangeperson, post: 56166721, member: 227984"] I've seen this argument before. Why it it acceptable for atheist organisations to 'deprogram' people into rejecting belief, but it is not OK for theist organisations to encourage belief? Why is one form brainwashing and the other is education? Because knowledge - including God's message - should not be confined to society's elite. It applies to everyone, including (indeed [I]especially[/I]) the common man. Giving it only to people deemed 'good enough' is what leads to dictatorships, including theocracies. ---- To answer OPs question: one theory is that we are programmed for belief because we have an uncanny ability to 'recognise' human features in innanimate objects, to anthropomorphize almost anything. Because of this, so many things seem humanised it gives the impression that the world and everything in it was created by some kind of 'super-human'. The world looks designed, so somebody must have designed it. Now, not surprisingly perhaps, I don't agree with this theory. We still seem to have this presumption that everything - including belief - is something physical which if necessary be can be cut out, removed from life. Once we know what it is we can get rid of it. The idea does not only apply to religion. The Soviet Union misused psychiatry to label anybody with 'outlandish' ideas as mentally ill. [/QUOTE]
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