Are Atheists showing symptoms of Groupthink as a whole? Along with their unsuccessful denials that they are a group :)
1. Rationalization – "The theists don't agree with us because they haven’t researched the problem like we have.
2. Peer Pressure – "Well, if you really feel that we’re making a mistake you can always join the stupid people. (either you are with us or you are stupid)"
3. Complacency – "Our results speak for themselves. (we are the fastest growing community, our sh*t doesn't stink!)"
4. Moral Superiority – "We know we are right because theists are the biggest killers" But what about millions killed by Atheists?" Out comes the retort "Stalin was not an Atheist, neither was Mao and Pol Pot, oh no he was not an Atheist." "And Hitler?", What about Hitler?
5. Stereotyping – "The theists (or anybody else for that matter) will find any excuse to argue with us, even when the facts are clearly on our side." (forgetting that you are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts)
6. Censorship – "If everyone else appears to agree among themselves ("consensus" of the scientists), then my ideas must be way off base."
7. False Agreement – "Everything has already been "explained" through science, you know Big Bang and Evolution and that which has not yet been explained will be explained one day." "But they are theories", "you stupid people don't understand what is meant by a theory in science".
8. And as far as the Agnostics are concerned, we have just one word to say "jump".
Note: Irving L. Janis (26 May 1918 - 15 November 1990) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions
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