Pages Tagged with #beliefs

The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs, in the following sections:

• 1. Introduction
• 1. Introduction
• 1. Introduction
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What Causes Religion and Superstitions?, in the following sections:

• 4.1. Hidden Inner Causes
• 4.1. Hidden Inner Causes
• Top of page

Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths, in the following sections:

• 3.1. Story Telling and Second-Hand Information
• 3.1. Story Telling and Second-Hand Information
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God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic, in the following sections:

• 1. Oral Transmission
• 1. Oral Transmission

Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought, in the following sections:

• Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought
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Human Story Telling: The Poor Accuracy of Oral Transmission, in the following sections:

• 2. Religion
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Religion as the Result of Human Mythmaking, in the following sections:

• 2. Story Telling
• 2. Story Telling

Some People Become Religious to Aid Motivation to Reform Their Behaviour: 1. Simple Answers in a Complex World

Religion in the United Kingdom: Diversity, Trends and Decline

God Does Not Need Prayer, Prophets, Souls, Evangelists Nor Religion: 3. Evangelism

Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes: 1. People Have False Experiences

The Christian Holy Bible: 3. How Would the True God Convey a Message to All?

Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?: 4. Thinking Errors

Mass Belief and the False Consensus Effect: Everyone Believes It So It Must Be True!

Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.5. The Enthusiasm of Amateurs: Freethought Without Skeptical Thinking Leads to Deception

Religion, Violence, Crime and Mass Suicide: 1.2. The Role of Strange Beliefs

Simple Answers in a Complex World: What Causes Religion?

United Kingdom: National Successes and Social Failures

Why are Our Memories Unreliable?: 3. Thinking Errors

Scientific Theories Must Make Way for New Evidence: 1. Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths

The Internet and Religion: 5. How Would A Monotheistic God Talk to Us All If Not Through a Website?

Agnosticism

Eckankar: The Religion of the Light and Sound of God, The Ancient Science of Soul Travel: 6. Soul Travel (Astral Projection)

Astrology: Do Observed Positions of the Planets Influence Our Lives in Mystical Ways?: 6. Thinking Errors

Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences: 1. People Have False Experiences

Out of Body Experiences (OBEs): Astral Projection or Soul Travelling?

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism: 4.3. Out of Body Experiences (OBEs)