npr.org — More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual.
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cyberdineSep 6, 2009
This research supports that. If spiritual experiences cause the same effects in the brain, then they are indistinguishable. So basically someone worshiping Allah is having the same experience as someone worshiping Jesus.
cyberdineSep 6, 2009
Don't forget the fundamentalist side to Jesus. The "No one gets to the Father except through me" and the "Son of God" side. As an atheist, this makes it difficult for me to be "ok" with him.
guitaristanycSep 6, 2009
It's a shame that in America, at least, we do not properly teach the origins and history of religion - if the masses knew how their religions came to be and how much they have changed over the years (mainly due to the seemingly random deliberations of councils of uber-elites), they might realize what cynical, political shams they all are and how a tiny elite has been brainwashing their ancestors for millennia for political and financial gain.All religious people should receive intensive psychotherapy and deprogramming and all priests and their political enablers should be tried and executed for crimes against humanity.
nmrgentlemanSep 6, 2009
I think it's also true that even most atheists don't realize just how influenced they have been by Christianity. Even when they talk about religion amongst themselves they often speak in terms that wouldn't make sense to many in the East. And they may not believe God exists, but even when they say "God" they have something at least kind of like the Christian god in mind - and almost always, they only consider one!
mwilhelmSep 8, 2009
Agreed so long as they are not passing irrevocable harm on others.
mwilhelmSep 8, 2009
So do I.Consider as well, our concept of time, measurement and the Gregorian calendar.
mwilhelmSep 8, 2009
hahaha...Love IT.