Why don’t more people leave the Church in the face of overwhelming evidence that it isn’t what it claims to be?.

In this episode we will discuss how the Normalcy Bias can help explain this behavior.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro & recap
00:10:00 Today’s topic
00:12:00 Tenerife, 911, 2004 Tsunami, 2018 Hawaii missile threat
00:20:00 70% of people freeze in an emergency, 15% panic, 15% take charge
00:34:15 Tying into Mormonism
00:34:25 Biggest answer to talking about issues w/Church is silence.
00:35:15 Death is terrifying, religion to circumvent that
00:39:00 Litany of fear-based scriptures
00:46:00 Fear of suffering
00:48:30 Fear of being deceived by the Devil
00:59:00 Normalcy bias combats cognitive dissonance
01:30:40 “The Shelf” metaphor
01:11:30 Confirmation bias: ignoring evidence of the contrary
01:12:00 Over reliance on others & anecdotal info
01:14:25 Over reliance on authority
01:15:30 Over reliance on their own past experience.
01:20:15 Loved ones responses are a programmed response to a perceived threat.
01:25:25 We get the most angry when the people we love the most hurt us
01:30:20 Fear of “Social death” feels the same as fear of physical death
01:37:00 We don’t know how many still in pews have lost faith because they are “hiding” in plain sight
01:41:00 Carah on identifying and connecting with other Mormons w/similar values
01:42:00 To the privileged to who stay for wealth & power: you have your reward
01:46:45 The consequences of living a lie & collateral damage
01:54:30 PIMO parents aren’t enough to tide the damage the Church can do to kids
02:03:00 “Leaving the Church but can’t leave it alone”

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