explanation of this kind of stuff based on Jungian psychology, see Ken Wilber,
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches
to Personal Growth (1979; repr. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2001).
34
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As countries industrialize, their religiosity drops precipitously. See Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart,
Sacred and Secular:
Religion and Politics Worldwide, 2nd ed. (2004; repr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 53–82.
35
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René Girard,
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, trans. Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer (repr. 1978;
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987), pp. 23–30.
36
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Similar to science being a religion in which we worship evidence, humanism could be seen as worshipping the “in-
betweenism” of all people—that there are no inherently good or evil people. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it, “The line dividing
good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”
37
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Sadly, these conspiracy theories are prominent in the United States today.
38
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I’m being a bit dramatic, but human sacrifice did occur in pretty much every major ancient and prehistoric civilization we
know of. See Nigel Davies,
Human Sacrifice in History and Today (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1988).
39
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For an interesting discussion of innate guilt and the role of human sacrifice, see Ernest Becker,
Escape from Evil (New
York: Freedom Press, 1985).
40
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Freud,
Civilization and Its Discontents, pp. 14–15.
41
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Ibid., p. 18.
42
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Manson,
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, pp. 23–29.
43
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E. O. Wilson,
On Human Nature (1978; repr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 169–92.
44
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Reasoning skills break down when one is confronted with emotionally charged issues (i.e., issues that touch our highest
values). See Vladimíra Čavojová, Jakub Šrol, and Magdalena Adamus, “My Point Is Valid; Yours Is Not: My-Side Bias in
Reasoning About Abortion,”
Journal of Cognitive Psychology 30, no. 7 (2018): 656–69.
45
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Actually, you may suck even more. Research shows that the more well informed and educated someone is, the more
politically polarized his opinions. See T. Palfrey and K. Poole, “The Relationship Between Information, Ideology, and Voting
Behavior,”
American Journal of Political Science 31, no. 3 (1987): 511–30.
46
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This idea was first published in F. T. Cloak Jr., “Is a Cultural Ethology Possible?”
Human Ecology 3, no. 3 (1975): 161–82.
For a less academic discussion, see Aaron Lynch,
Thought Contagion: How Beliefs Spread Through Society (New York: Basic
Books, 1996), pp. 97–134.
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