Deliberative System 2 thinking introduces doubt and can override religious intuitions

Evidence

These attempts at argumentation belong to the realm of doubt, questioning, skepticism. They arise from those parts of our brains that are slower, more deliberative, and reflective (known as System 2). This is the supervisory system that often agrees with the gut reactions from System 1. But it can also sow doubt. Therefore, it occasionally second-guesses, and overrules, these initial reactions. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 597

Categorization

• XREF: This causal claim about System 2 sowing religious doubt grounds the analytical claim that apostasy rituals target the social, not the cognitive, layer.
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that the same faculty that supervises and corrects intuition is exactly the one that manufactures disbelief is a genuinely subtle two-sided mechanism.