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To: JohnM who wrote (272032)	5/4/2015 2:15:21 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 540748

re fanaticism..... Correct imo most dont bother to read and practice The Teachings... these fanatics are therefore..confused at best....At Best

To: JohnM who wrote (272032)	5/4/2015 3:26:44 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540748

Then we disagree. People who stake real world outcomes on fantasy are a problem in my world. It's not just religious fanaticism. Religious thinking influences thinking- even when people are not fanatics. I'm not going to be PC and pretend fantasy thinking doesn't bleed into other areas of thinking- because all the studies I've read show that it does. And that's a problem- for people who want real world based scientific answers to problems. www.researchgate.net/...religious.../0deec51f2a8c571284000000.pdf An analytic cognitive style denotes a propensity to set aside highly salient intuitions when engaging in problem solving. We assess the hypothesis that an analytic cognitive style is associated with a history of questioning, altering, and rejecting (i.e., unbelieving) supernatural claims, both religious and paranormal. In two studies, we examined associations of God beliefs, religious engagement (attendance at religious services, praying, etc.), conventional religious beliefs (heaven, miracles, etc.) and paranormal beliefs (extrasensory perception, levitation, etc.) with performance measures of cognitive ability and analytic cognitive style. An analytic cognitive style negatively predicted both religious and paranormal beliefs when controlling for cognitive ability as well as religious engagement, sex, age, political ideology, and education. Participants more willing to engage in analytic reasoning were less likely to endorse supernatural beliefs. Further, an association between analytic cognitive style and religious engagement was mediated by religious beliefs, suggesting that an analytic cognitive style negatively affects religious engagement via lower acceptance of conventional religious beliefs. Results for types of God belief indicate that the association between an analytic cognitive style and God beliefs is more nuanced than mere acceptance and rejection, but also includes adopting less conventional God beliefs, such as Pantheism or Deism. Our data are consistent with the idea that two people who share the same cognitive ability, education, political ideology, sex, age and level of religious engagement can acquire very different