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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
We are only simpletons in areas in which we refuse to apply critical thinking and reality testing, and unfortunately, that is the exact position that literalizing myth via religion, puts true believers.
You are implying here that the agency of “true believers” is heavily captured by their religion. I can agree with that.
You are also implying that their agency is not completely captured by their religion, and that there is a truth seeking aspect that transcends religious capture. Otherwise, how can they refuse to apply critical thinking if their agency is completely captured?
Is that fair? If so, you have to ask yourself, what is the most effective strategy of persuasion: to attack what has heavily captured their agency to the point of making any association with it
post deconstruction humiliating? You are actually having the opposite effect in doing that because they will want to avoid humiliation.
More likely, you are being deluded into believing that you can humiliate them while they are captured by their belief in order to detach them, but the truth isn’t humiliating and we believe that what we are captured by is true.
Can you see this? If so, you should shift your focus to yourself, on what is deluding you.