Since we can see that childhood indoctrination, threats of punishment, cultural isolation, biased argumentation, cognitive dissonance, low self-esteem, and low intelligence lead people to illogical conclusions about religion, the question should now become how to undo the effects of some of these phenomena. One of the primary findings of persuasive psychology is that, outside […]
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Men. Woman and Gods – Helen H. Gardener (Intro by Robert G. Ingersoll) pdf
The Bible its Own Refutation – Charles G. Olmsted – pdf
Some Mistakes of Moses – Robert G. Ingersoll – pdf
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, CONTENTS OF THE 12 VOLUMES By Robert G. Ingersoll – pdf
History Begins at Sumer – Samuel Noah Kramer – pdf
Emotion and Logic – Dr Jason Long
Cognitive Dissonance – Dr Jason Long
The founder of Cognitive Dissonance Theory compared the psychological drive to physiological hunger. Just as hunger is a motivation to eat and rid oneself of the hunger, dissonance is a motivation to explain inconsistency and rid oneself of the dissonance. Explanations, therefore, work toward satisfying dissonance just as nutrients work toward satisfying hunger. He suggested […]
Biblical Absurdity at its Finest – Dr Jason Long
No reader can truthfully deny that multitudes of curious occurrences are readily observable in the Bible. To a Christian believer, these strange events are nothing more than the mysterious ways of God. To a freethinker, the alleged phenomena are an indicative subset of the widespread superstitious beliefs held by our ancestors. There are […]