Garth Kroeker
a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
The Psychology of Religion, Chapter 15: Spirituality & Superstition
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Humans have cognitive tendencies that make superstitious beliefs easy to generate—and hard to extinguish. By “spirituality” here I do not me...
The Psychology of Religion, Chapter 14: Religion as a Business
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Many religions and other spiritual practices operate partly like a business. There is marketing (proselytization, outreach), branding (symbo...
The Psychology of Religion, Chapter 13: to be a scholar, you had to study theology
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For long stretches of European history, many able people who wanted to study the biggest questions ended up studying religion. That was not ...
The Psychology of Religion, Chapter 12: Benefits of Unfounded Belief
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Another troubling angle on all of this is that people can sometimes latch onto a belief system whose claims are unfounded or causally miscon...
The Psychology of Religion, Chapter 11: Evolution
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Evolution deserves space here because it explains the origins and diversification of life in a way that directly contradicts literal religio...
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