Believing and thinking

The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon

文章區分了宗教信念與事實信念在心理機制上的三點差異：前者自願、不受證據動搖、局限於儀式情境，後者則相反。作者據此論證，正是這種心理分區使政教分離與宗教自由在自由民主社會中成為可行原則。