Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

@strega and @simonpaynton

I took “the evolutionary base for mysticism” to be a reference to recent work highlighted by J Anderson Thompson, where for various evolutionary reasons, we are predisposed to make some cognitive errors, such as seeing agency in events when it isn’t there. (The idea being that if you are wandering around in the tall grass, and you see a clump of it moving, you’re safer assuming it’s a leopard and taking precautions, than you are assuming it’s just a zephyr blowing the grass around.)

Perhaps Simon meant something completely different, and if so I apologize for the misunderstanding on my part.

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