Hamas' top political leader is killed in Iran in strike that risks triggering all-out regional war
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel "will exact a heavy price from any aggression against us on any front.”
  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Are people born with a genetic predisposition towards accepting religious texts? Why are some populations more or less dogmatically religious?

        • nonailsleft
          2·
          2 months ago

          Access to education and societal tolerance to critical thinking?

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 months ago

            Closer! Access to education helps, certainly. Social tolerance for critical thinking, however, stems from material conditions as well, however.

            • nonailsleft
              31·
              2 months ago

              That’s a pretty naive take. There are plenty of rich religious fundamentalists, and plenty of poor atheists. And plenty of rich societies with very little tolerance for critical thinking

              • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                1·
                2 months ago

                I don’t mean wealth when I say “material conditions,” I mean the whole of how society is organized and the class dynamics that exist within it.