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ORIGINAL: kinksterparty

People exposed to any kind of indoctrination - religious, political, or social - are generally less able to distinguish facts from opinions.

However, the cause and effect sequence is debatable.

Are they unable to distinguish because they've been indoctrinated - or were they able to be indoctrinated because they didn't have the capacity to differentiate from the start?

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ORIGINAL: Kirata


From your link...

religious teaching, especially exposure to miracle stories, leads children to a more generic receptivity toward the impossible, that is, a more wide-ranging acceptance that the impossible can happen in defiance of ordinary causal relations

This study appears to confirm that children exposed to religious teachings are less likely to regard the Materialist assumption with the same degree of fervor that compels its faithful to enshrine it as a "fact," proclaim it the final arbiter of what is "real" and "possible," and dismiss all other views as delusional.

Oh, horrors.

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

When sane people approach a door they do not pray to the daemon of portals to reveal how the door will be opened nor do they cast lots to foretell how to operate the latch. They turn the knob and go through based on prior experience with doors and observation of how doors have opened in the past.. That is the so called materialist assumption.

Well no, Ken. That's not the Materialist assumption, nor does learning from experience affirm a sweeping Materialist assumption about the ultimate nature of the entire reality.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

All sane people use it all the time. There is no other way to interact with the world. People who dismiss it are deluded or liars.

Since you are one who regards the Materialist assumption with a degree of fervor that compels its faithful to enshrine it as a "fact," proclaim it the final arbiter of what is "real" and "possible," and dismiss all other views as delusional (link), I want to thank you for your nicely illustrative comment about "sane" people versus the "deluded or liars."

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

attempting to equate reality with religion also doesn't change anything it just makes you look foolish. So now you will retreat to snark, insults and pictures of poorly translated signs because you are incapable of making a compelling defense of your position.

In all non-snarky seriousness, Ken, making shit up just makes you look foolish.

K.

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Since you are one who regards the Materialist assumption with a degree of fervor that compels its faithful to enshrine it as a "fact," proclaim it the final arbiter of what is "real" and "possible," and dismiss all other views as delusional (link), I want to thank you for your nicely illustrative comment about "sane" people versus the "deluded or liars."

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/18/researchers-children-exposed-to-religion-have-difficulty-distinguishing-fact-from-fiction/

I found this article about how children exposed to religious indoctrination don't possess the same skepticism as non religious children and as such have more trouble determining reality from fantasy.

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ORIGINAL: kinksterparty
Are they unable to distinguish because they've been indoctrinated - or were they able to be indoctrinated because they didn't have the capacity to differentiate from the start?

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
Ridiculous. The study basically states that children who are raised religiously and presumably have parents who taught them that religion (presumably Christianity) is true, were most likely to believe that the Bible is true. Duh.