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  2. Herd mentality - Wikipedia

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    The scientists discovered that people end up blindly following one or two instructed people who appear to know where they are going. The results of this experiment showed that it only takes 5% of confident looking and instructed people to influence the direction of the other 95% of people in the crowd, and the 200 volunteers did this without ...

  3. Religious fanaticism - Wikipedia

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    Religious fanaticism (or the prefix ultra-being used with a religious term (such as ultra-Orthodox Judaism), or (especially when violence is involved) religious extremism) is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in ...

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Ingroup bias is the tendency for people to give preferential treatment to others they perceive to be members of their own groups. It is related to the following: Not invented here , an aversion to contact with or use of products, research, standards, or knowledge developed outside a group.

  5. Islamic views on sin - Wikipedia

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    The Quran describes these sins throughout the texts and demonstrates that some sins are more punishable than others in the hereafter. A clear distinction is made between major sins (al-Kabirah) and minor sins (al-Sagha'ir) (Q4:31–32), indicating that if an individual stays away from the major sins then they will be forgiven of the minor sins ...

  6. Al-Baqara 256 - Wikipedia

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    If We pardon a group of you, We will punish others for their wickedness.", [44] As well as "And say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “˹This is˺ the truth from your Lord. Whoever wills let them believe, and whoever wills let them disbelieve.” ...", [ 45 ] "Had your Lord so willed ˹O Prophet˺, all ˹people˺ on earth would have certainly believed, every ...

  7. Sin - Wikipedia

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    Sin, also called Tsumi, is anything that makes people impure (i.e. anything that separates them from the kami). [39] However, Shinto does not believe this impurity is the result of human actions, but rather the result of evil spirits or other external factors. [38] [39] Sin can have a variety of consequences in Japan, including disaster and ...

  8. Sexual abstinence - Wikipedia

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    [33] The entirety of the Catholic Church's stance on contraception is predicated by the way the Catholic Church views marriage, insofar as marriage is an intimate human union between man and a woman wherein the two mutually give of themselves in their entirety for the good of the other and live in such a way that is open to procreation.

  9. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

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    The seven deadly sins are called "deadly" because they might lead another to commit other sins. Some forms of the seven deadly sins (i.e. debilitating one's health because of their love of food) can constitute as grave matter, while others may just be venal (i.e. over-eating).