Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Mogk Matt

Author:Mogk, Matt [Mogk, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2011-07-03T04:00:00+00:00

On that same program, just two days after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, Jerry Falwell blamed the tragedy not on the foreign hijackers or distant terrorist masterminds but on what he perceived to be the real homegrown menace: homosexuals and feminists.

Irrational blaming in times of crisis crosses all cultures and religions. A prominent Indian journalist, Rajeev Srinivasan, suggested that a 2004 earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in fourteen countries was a sign of retribution against Christians in India, whose activities he sees as betraying that nation’s essentially Hindu character. He referred to the event as the “Christmas quake” and implied that the December 27 date was no coincidence.

A 2010 study from York University in England found that sustained levels of anxiety can give rise to radical, violent religious beliefs. Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the evidence suggests that anxious people more fervently cling to their ideals and are more extreme in their convictions. Lead researcher Ian McGregor explains that a process known as Reactive Approach Motivation (RAM) is to blame:

Reactive Approach Motivation is a tenacious state in which people become “locked and loaded” on whatever goal or ideal they are promoting. They feel powerful, and thoughts and feelings related to other issues recede.44

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