Read on Twitter
“Commitment is the key... I know it sounds simple, but when emotional doubts arise, just remind yourself, ‘I dealt with this. It’s settled. It’s done.’ That’s why atheism doesn’t make me doubt.” - @BraxHunter
CDT: The more important a belief is to someone’s identity, and the more they commit themselves to that belief, the harder they will work to protect that belief from dissonance or reduce existing dissonance without abandoning that belief.
IOW Braxton is encouraging what social psychologists have long recognized to be a major source of confirmation bias.
Commitment is a wonderful thing, but it should never be used to silence our doubts. What apologists like Braxton call “emotional doubts” are really just unexamined areas of dissonance. Those areas should be given the space to speak without judgment, not shut down or belittled.
