Understanding Religion's Relationship To Human Social Systems

11:33 - 12:15 I interpret this differently. What Diana is saying is this: "My kind of people (my social and ideological tribe) are the people (the only people) I represent. Anyone else just doesn't matter to me and doesn't matter to our in-group, because we don't value them, we don't respect them, and we aren't "them". She's flag-planting, as a white Christian nationalist colonizer. "We conquered this territory. It's ours now." Effectively, she sees you as an enemy combatant; caught behind your enemy's battle lines on the map. From that perspective, all critical voices are automatically (a) "conquered people" who lost that territory in an ongoing civil war. "That war was never really over. The South did rise again. And it's going to win." What you call "America", is a difference of narrative between what the North and South call "America". So from her perspective, and ...

​  @lanceindependent  [ link to original question] 2.4 billion people identify as "Christian". Only ~75 million of those are "Calvinists". Aside from Calvinists, it's very hard to find a self-identified "Christian" who rejects librarian free will. Muslims are approx 1.8 billion. They too believe in LFW. Hindus: approx 1.2 billion. They too believe in LFW. Judaic sects account for about 15.7 billion. They too believe in LFW. Total estimates "theists": 6 billion. Most "unaffiliated" theists were/are raised either by parents or (otherwise) in a culture ... where locally mainstream core concepts (ie. libertarian free will) were/are either subtly or directly expressed. That's partly because culture intermixes with mainstream religiosity. Cultural concepts have a deep impact on how people in those societies think about personal freedoms, mental abilities, morality, justice, and ego. LFR is also a defaul...