Academic training can reinforce existing beliefs through confirmation bias, where students interpret new information to validate what they already believe rather than genuinely challenging their assumptions, as demonstrated by a student who accepted Karl Marx's view of religion as 'the opiate of the masses' without critical examination.
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And I think I was being much more programmed in a secular worldview without even realizing that I was in I mean I took sociological theory in college and I was told that religion is the opiate of the masses, [music] right?
That's like old school Karl Marx and I was like, "Ah, yes, of course it is.
That validates everything I've been thinking the whole time." I wasn't like, "Hey, is there something else going on here?" So, I I think I was being um brainwashed maybe too strong, but like brainwashed, but I didn't think that I was because I was I already had that worldview. So, I was in this constant confirmation bias.
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