Check out Kathryn Schulz and her fascnination with wrongness.
To put it simply: when we are wrong, it feels so right and at home. But feeling that we are on the right side of things has dire consquences at times. So why are we so frightened to apply this kind of thinking onto beliefs to which we’re so emotionally and intellectually attached? Why is being wrong so scary if that realization could help us develop?
Christian fundamentalists seem to be on the alert for doctrinal compromise. They rightly argue that truth comes only from God and His Word. Our emotions and gut feeling cannot be trusted. What they seem to overlook is that the certainty about what is true and what is not true is strong bundle of strong emotions and gut feeling. The Christians are right. We cannot trust our emotions to discern what truth is. The struggle to embrace truth is much more involved than coupling our strongest emotion with the facts that seem most evident to us.