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#138: Red Enlightenment - Socialism, Science & Spirituality (ft. Graham Jones)

It's Not Just In Your Head

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The Perception of Agency Outside Our Perception

I don't think the left anymore should be trying to convert people away from religion I just don't think it's sensible. Even if you've got really great logical arguments even if you take out the community aspect I think it's highly unlikely we will ever be able to come up with any sort of system that in any consistent long-term collective way is anywhere near as powerful as religion, he says. We're constantly looking for faces we're looking for empathy it just sets us up for like I say it doesn't mean that we are necessarily going to be religious but the idea of either a god or a series of gods or a spirit world really neatly falls into that way of understanding the world

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