Re: The God Spots in the Brain

Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in alt.atheism

> We evolved memory. The God Spot (Dog Stain) is a mere product of that
> memory. As is language, intuition, inference, etc. All human beliefs and
> knowledge rely on memory. Equivocating God w/ grand organizing design is,
> well, equivocation. This helps in no other way than confounding the already
> bloated garbage pile of dogma and nonsense surrounding theism.

A lot of that memory is planted into young impressionable minds during
Sunday school or some other religious indoctrination.  Without that
underlying garbage pile of dogma in the back of the mind of people as
they get older, I suspect a lot of the god experiences would never
even happen.  People are taught that there's some god out there who
loves them and watches over them, then when something goes wrong,
they have to try to figure out what's going on with regards to that
god.  If that idea were never planted in the first place, then there
would be less stress, imo, and less chance of some mental breakdown
on the part of the religious believers.

> Why don't these researchers spend there time trying to help people with
> legitimate brain problems. Looking for God in the head. Ha ha ha. They'd have
> better luck looking for him up their asses!

I don't see what's so funny.  The research they're doing could indeed
help people in the future.

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