LAST LECTURE BEFORE MIDTERM!!!
Today a topic that really interested me was cognitive dissonance. This is a concept that, in my opinion, can be interpreted by different people to mean different things. Basically it means that people reinterpret things in a way that makes sense with their religious beliefs and reality. In other words, people rationalize findings to keep their faith. For example, after the great temple was destroyed, people began to say that God's name was in the temple instead of God actually living in the temple. This is a concept of religion that I don't fully agree with. Although I admit that I may not fully understand the topic, it seems ignorant to ignore or reinterpret facts just so that they fit your original understanding. If everyone in the world thought this way, we would never have any new discoveries or critical thinking to advance our world. Then again, I also realize that I am probably thinking about this idea too literally and realize that this is a very extreme way of understanding cognitive dissonance.
Jerusalem the Holy City
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