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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do You Like Being a Sister Wife?

i think there's an argument here for not indoctrinating any child into any view until they've reached a certain level of maturity and capacity to assess ideas. Until a kid, relatively in a non brain washed kid, reaches the age of eight, nyou can't treat their religious choices, their political affiliations, or anything else, as freely chosen. In a waysaint saint francis zavier, the jesuit a, seventeenth century, eighteenth century jesuit a,. said, give me a child for the first six years, and you can do what you like with him after his point was that those are the formative years.

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