In this week's episode, we're back to talking about the tenets and principles of Clean Thinking and we're doing so via our fifth discussion of a specific influence: our religion. This is definitely a touchy one and personal for many, so enter at your own risk. Host Mike Marcella tries his absolute best to discuss the topic from an objective perspective with a focus on religion's potential to act as a negative influence on our thinking, while still giving it its due credit, but some may take offense nonetheless. If so, whattya gonna do? This is a pretty big topic to cover, so this is the first episode of a 2-part series on the topic. If you don't like the content from part 1, then tuning into part 2 is probably not in your best interest, but we hope you do, since there is much to learn about the topic and its effects on our thinking when viewed from an objective perspective.

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Sources used in podcast:

• Potentially habitable planets:
• https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc418
• Familial influence of religiosity throughout life:
• https://www.pewforum.org/2016/10/26/links-between-childhood-religious-upbringing-and-current-religious-identity/
• Role of genetics on religious beliefs / correlation between personality & religious beliefs
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-born-to-be-religious/
• Benefits of religious beliefs on grief processing
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC116607/