For a list concerned with the science of psychology, whenever we get on the
topic of religion we seem to be make remarkably few careful distinctions
about the subtlety of religious behavior and also to ignore the vast
variation in religious behavior and belief across human history and
culture.
Simple arguments that cast all religious behavior as bad or as good should
be extremely suspect. They likely emerge from idiology more than science.
They fuel misunderstanding and anger. Both religion and science can become
idiology (and both can be based in epistemological humility).
-Chuck
- Chuck Huff; 507.646.3169; http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/
- Psychology Department, St.Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
