tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post9189637687662465450..comments2023-10-06T06:29:02.689-04:00Comments on A Bright Cape: Searching for truthSkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-36463849107210298002011-10-25T08:51:47.291-04:002011-10-25T08:51:47.291-04:00I don't understand how--given the career you&#...I don't understand how--given the career you've had--you can be so amazed that people make emotional, irrational decisions! Especially when most of these people have been fed these beliefs as children.<br />You already know that for most people and in most things, "rational" explanations are applied to their decisions long after they've already made those decisions. You know that for a fair number of women and homosexuals that are members of that church, they understand the fear and discrimination they experience in that organization, but they "can't" leave, because the things they have most been taught to value are based on that organization, and they've been taught that absolutely horrible things will happen to them if they do--ranging from "you will suffer torment in hell" to "your family will stop talking to you if you come out against this religion."<br />The system persists, in part, because its values persist even in those it persecutes, and in part because those values are planted early in the minds of its targets, and watered with reinforcement throughout the childhood and youth of those they are planted in.Iolonoreply@blogger.com