Shadee Elmasry – Connection Between Truth and Tranquillity

Every religious person will tell you and will swear up and down

that they feel such a tranquility with their worship. So how do we

make sense of this? Well, one of the reasons is internal

consistency. Imagine I teach you some math equations, and I test

you, you go to the exam, and you answer them exactly as I taught

you, you come back and the exam, you get an F, but when you left

the exam, and you answer them exactly the way I taught you, how

do you feel you feel great, lo and behold, you get a rude awakening

that I taught you all wrong, but between me and you, you are

consistent. You feel that you did the right thing. So the feeling of

doing the right thing according to what you believe is a source of

tranquility. Sometimes you hear something from somebody who is not

on the truth, yet they say, the sense of tranquility, I feel it.

And you notice that