From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge With reinforcement such as this, the assumption that going to college leads to disaffiliation has put down deep roots in the psyche of many conservative Christians over the last few years. But is that even a valid assumption? Are people with higher …
From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge I was born in the early 1980s and raised in a politically and theologically conservative Southern Baptist Church in the 1990s. That most salient political moment of my teenage years was the scandal related to President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. …
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From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge One of the most revelatory things I learned in reading social science a a graduate student is the sheer number of cognitive biases each of us holds and how many of them we fall prey to without knowing it. An example is …
From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge I was doing what I knew was a mistake. I got into an argument with someone on social media. They were making a point using statistical evidence that I knew to be false. So I did what I always do in situations …
