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Errant Belief #5: “He Has the Right to Believe What He Wants to Believe”

Errant Belief #5: “He Has the Right to Believe What He Wants to Believe”

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Mar 15, 2018
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The Right to Believe Anything vs. Reality-Testing

Freedom to believe is only a real freedom if you also have the freedom not to believe. Having the right to believe something carries with it a presupposition of the right to not believe it, too. When recruiters deceptively ensnare people into a closed belief system, it violates informed consent. If a person wants to believe that David Koresh is the Christ, that is his right. If people want to believe that Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han are the perfect True Parents, they are entitled.

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