Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds

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_KevinSim
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Re: Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds

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Themis wrote:I suspect your strategy on this board is to continually misrepresent what people say.

I don't intentionally misrepresent what people say. I mentioned two possibilities, one that Dark Helmet was saying I'm not an analytical thinker, and two that I'm among the exceptions to the general rule that Dark Helmet's statements allow. Are you saying that what Dark Helmet actually meant is not described by one of these two possibilities? If so, what did Dark Helmet mean?
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Re: Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds

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Buffalo wrote:That's true. But it also is true per the study that time spent in vigorous analytical thought, even unrelated to faith, makes the faith of believers weaker.

I suspect that that depends on what the analytical thinker has faith in.
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Re: Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds

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I'm extremely analytic by nature. An outlier, really. So I'm conforming to stereotype in this case.
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