1] " There’s also the Franklin Effect. (https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/10/05/the-benjamin-franklin-effect/#more-1459) When we treat someone badly [ think John Piper or Mark Dever], we justify it to ourselves internally by demonizing them, by creating for ourselves a belief that they are bad people who deserved it. Because otherwise, we would have to admit to our selves that we are not the good people that we believe ourselves to be, and doing that is harder than internal rationalizations.
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"the Groupthink Threshold where Groupthink locks in and all dissidents are Purged."
T.W.W. doesn't allow dissidents to stay very long.
Dissecting Wartburgwatch and I-Monk which presents themselves as blogs dissecting Christian trends but dissect, mostly, conservative Evangelicals who have an historic orthodox view of Scripture. Not a lot of happy commenters seen on those blogs.
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