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Faith, Excuses, and Cognitive Dissonance | Astrology Ride of the Day
A blunt claim opens this one — people who subscribe to a faith will find an excuse when it contradicts itself. What follows is the mechanism behind that claim, named directly: cognitive dissonance, the discomfort of holding two contradictory beliefs at once, and the quiet ways a mind resolves it rather than lets it sit. Belief gets separated from proof entirely — faith treated less as a set of provable claims and more as a lived, communal experience that doesn't require winning an argument to hold value. Truth gets split from fact, a story's spiritual meaning standing apart from whether it…
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