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lilrabbitfoofoo t1_isy10km wrote

So, you read my post and decided to pull these ridiculous strawman arguments and series of false equivalencies out of your ass instead?

Let me make it CLEARER to you, since you claim to have been paying attention but yet didn't seem to understand the very key factors here:

First, people with a larger than normal amygdala instinctively respond to the unknown with fear instead of with curiosity. This is not within their unconscious control. However, with education and personal experience (facing this unknown) they can learn to ameliorate this de facto response. This is why "conservatives" are always trying to segregate people by race, beliefs, etc. and why they always attack education and open discussions with the larger group.

Second, religious charlatans target these people at a very young age with fearmongering lies and scams. Children are programmed in their DNA to trust their elders as a survival mechanism, which is why charlatans target children with ignorant superstitious nonsense and propaganda.

Third, children indoctrinated into such nonsense cults have a very hard time escaping them as adults. Especially when they are kept away from a proper education in critical thinking skills and from meeting people with other beliefs and from other cultures.

Fourth, people raised religious overlap overwhelmingly with LowIQanon rightwing white supremacist Trumpist conspiracy drivel in the USA. This is not suprising since these conspiracy kooks and would be demagogues use the same fearmongering approaches proven to work by religious scammers. It's why Trumpism in the US, for example, is obviously a religious sub cult of Christian Nationalism.

And finally, in order to keep the cult fed with hate and fear, the cult leaders need to targets to attack as "them" in order for the suckers and followers to feel part of "us".

So, they always attack perennial minorities like racial differences, homosexuals, religious minorities, etc. because those groups are always outnumbered. "Them" always adapts and expands to whatever local minorities exist (Sunnis in Shia nations, vice versa, etc.).

And then it expands to whatever is new and unfamiliar to the fearful old fools still caught up in the cult long past the age of reason, like Rock n Roll is bad, then Heavy Metal, then Dungeons & Dragons, then Death Metal, then Rap, then Harry Potter, and on and on.

Fortunately, these large amydala ignorant, gullible cowards are a genetic minority everywhere in the world. Otherwise, the human race would have died out a very long time ago.

Unfortunately, they exist in large enough numbers to be a perennial pain in everyone's ass, which is why civilization has been fighting the same culture war with these ignorant fools over and over again for hundreds of thousands of years.

And why decent folk who believe in egalitarianism must always remain vigilant against religious swindlers, snake-oil salesmen, and would be demagogues like Hitler, Stalin, Putin, and Trump.

Those are the REAL "patterns" based on SCIENCE covering hundreds of thousands of years of human development and history.

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