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Title: Humans 'hardwired for religion'
Source: Guardian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1864748,00.html
Published: Apr 18, 2007
Author: James Randerson
Post Date: 2007-04-18 09:33:10 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 482
Comments: 14

Humans 'hardwired for religion'

James Randerson

Monday September 4, 2006

Guardian Unlimited

The battle by scientists against "irrational" beliefs such as creationism is ultimately futile, a leading experimental psychologist said today.

The work of Bruce Hood, a professor at Bristol University, suggests that magical and supernatural beliefs are hardwired into our brains from birth, and that religions are therefore tapping into a powerful psychological force.

"I think it is pointless to think that we can get people to abandon their belief systems because they are operating at such a fundamental level," said Prof Hood. "No amount of rational evidence is going to be taken on board to get people to abandon those ideas."

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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

It's scriptural, we have a void. But for God, not religion. Certainly not Westboro Baptist Church. "Matthew Shepard has been in hell for 3110 days."

robin  posted on  2007-04-18   9:52:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I guess robin. I've never seen religious extremism cause more insanity and war than it is today. I have an article from the Jerusalem Post that claims the MRIs of Palestinian terrorist’s show malformations. Talk about racism. I’ll dig it up and post it here later. That said, overt thumpers are equally nuts IMO. I haven’t a clue how anyone can take Bible stories literally. I'm starting to believe religion either "takes" or is doesn't.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-04-18   10:06:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Bill Maher claims religions are the cause of all the world's problems.

But I would be careful not to confuse religion with God. You could say that all organizations are the cause of all the world's problems and still be mostly accurate.

At least the world's Merlins no longer sacrifice children and virgins to volcanoes to save and control a village. Oh nevermind, now the world's Merlins have human/drug trafficking and wars - to make money and control people. And we still need a good scare every few years, to remember who will save us.

robin  posted on  2007-04-18   10:14:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#4. To: robin (#3) (Edited)

Bill Maher claims religions are the cause of all the world's problems.

But I would be careful not to confuse religion with God. You could say that all organizations are the cause of all the world's problems and still be mostly accurate.

Religion is the subversion of the spiritual and mystical to the very real power of those in control. Religion is about power on earth. It is about controlling the minds of the people, by shaping their reality. The Catholic Church, for example, was created to be the state religion, and was used to stamp out of Christianity the spiritual tenets in favor of dogma, learned and repeated without reference to its source or validity.

The tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is about religion denying to humans the path to spiritual enlightenment through ingesting the things that will give one the ability to discern good and evil, to have knowledge of the gods.

It wasn't an apple they ate. It was a mushroom.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-18 10:23:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Bill Maher claims religions are the cause of all the world's problems.

I think he ripped that off from George Carlin who has a funny Youtube rant on religion.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-04-18 10:28:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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