Dr. David DeSteno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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I don't have the good answer to why.
But it is – your point is well taken.
That is intelligence –
How religious you are does not correlate with intelligence, right?
There are really brilliant people who embrace the idea that there is a God and there is a creator, and there are some that aren't.
And I think it's because those people realize, like I was saying before,
If you're a person who is really rational and is really intelligent, when you look at the data, there's nothing to refute it.
And so, again, no one sees evidence of God in the world scientifically, but we also realize we can't rule it out.
And when they have whatever their own inner life is, if they feel they have that connection, why reject it?
And so I think it's important to realize that it's not a marker of poor intelligence.
He had the crazy eyes.
Yeah.
I mean, if you're not familiar with a religion, same as if you're not familiar with a product, what's going to drive you is the stereotype of the brand.
But
I think the more you look, you realize that those are problematic for good or for ill.
So, you know, you raised the point about the Dalai Lama and my original reaction when I first saw it was exactly the same as yours.
But, you know, even Buddhism, a religion that is built on the idea of loving kindness and ending suffering.
You know, in Sri Lanka right now is being used to justify kind of a genocide against certain groups and the monks themselves are taking up arms.
Right.
And people are shocked when they hear that because any religion can do that.
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