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 […]
Cognitive Dissonance
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 […]
The origin of the Jews – Race Myth and ‘Sacred History’
Jew Who? Asiatic traders, tomb of Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt. Jews – or not Jews? ‘About the year 1000 B.C. there was nothing distinctive about the Jews ethnically, linguistically, politically or economically.’ N. Cantor (The Sacred Chain, p52) Jews worship Queen of Heaven “Then … all the people who dwelt in Egypt […]
Judaism and Christianity – 2,000 years of lies – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
by Laura Knight-Jadczyk 14 May 2008 from Sott Website Comment: Considering what we have all been learning about Dominionism since the selection of Fundamentalist Sarah Palin as VP candidate, SOTT thought it would be appropriate to re-run this article about the historical background of Israel and Judaism, the creators of the Bible on which […]
Forgery in Christianity – Joseph Wheless pdf
The Argument from the Bible
The Argument from the Bible (1996) By Theodore M. Drange Almost all evangelical Christians believe that the writing of the Bible was divinely inspired and represents God’s main revelation to humanity. They also believe that the Bible contains special features which constitute evidence of its divine inspiration. This would be a use of the […]
Israel, the Psychopathic Nation
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/03/psycho-israel/
Cognitive Dissonance
The founder of Cognitive Dissonance Theory compared the psychological drive to physiological hunger.[i] 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 […]