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A New Worldview

From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge So what’s the antidote to this morass in which we find ourselves? It begins when people from all political persuasions start to embrace a worldview that is less partisan and more empirical. To perceive the world in an empirical way is, in

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They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority

From “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had. He devised an experiment to test the proposition, but failed to get permission to carry it out

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When We Believe What People Say About Us

 by Susan K. Smith             In his book, James Baldwin: A Biography. author David Leeming writes, “Children believe what their parents tell them, and oppressed minorities constantly face the danger of believing the myths attached to them by their oppressors.”              Those words lead to his observations about James Baldwin and his revelations about his stepfather, who, Baldwin said,

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