in his book, The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Height has a few different kind of like thought experiments. that you can ask people and ba I won't spoil them and some of them aren't even really appropriate for talking about on the internet but because they're about some pretty weird and disgusting topics but basically the point that the exercise demonstrates is that most people and this isn't any re you know revolutionary idea here but most people kind of already have their beliefs in place and then they just look for justifications for those beliefs they it's just a confirmation bias.
The Righteous Mind (2012)
A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."
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- 9780307377906
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- 419 pages
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