The False Equation: Religion Equals Morality by Gwynne Dyer In the United States, where it is almost impossible to get elected unless you profess a strong religious faith, it would have passed completely unnoticed. Not one of the hundred US senators ticks the “No Religion/Atheist/Agnostic” box, for example, although 16 percent of the American population [...]
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Neocon Daniel Pipes’ Cognitive Dissonance
Posted: December 6, 2011 in Fascist Daniel Pipes, Neocon Crazies, Neocon Daniel PipesTags: Cognitive Dissonance, Daniel Pipes, Neocon Crazies, Neocon Nutters
Daniel Pipes’ Cognitive Dissonance December 5, 2011 at 12:01 pm Ed Brayton The National Review Online hosts an exercise in how to avoid cognitive dissonance by Daniel Pipes, who favors the strategy of just continuing to maintain one’s assumed beliefs in the face of all evidence in order to do away with the dissonance that [...]
