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The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt

The Book Pile

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The Importance of Feelings

"I thought this book taught you not to attack other people's religious beliefs. All right, lesson two, feelings come first, reasons second," he says. "What they found was people had strong feelings that these things were wrong, but then they couldn't find a reason." He adds: We feel something is wrong and then we come up with the reasons later.

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