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Study Finds Link Between Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism
The Big Think ^ | 05/09/2017 | Paul Ratner

Posted on 05/09/2017 7:01:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

An open mind is like an open mouth -
designed ultimately to close upon something solid.


61 posted on 05/09/2017 9:02:16 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: SeekAndFind

Scientist find these people are harder to program and manipulate.


62 posted on 05/09/2017 9:09:53 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: SeekAndFind

Like climate change, institutional racism being everywhere and homosexuality being innate not behavioral, as well as gender is not inherent but selectable


63 posted on 05/09/2017 9:14:50 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: smokingfrog

There are no atheists in foxholes.


64 posted on 05/09/2017 9:55:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Fake science!


65 posted on 05/09/2017 10:34:23 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SeekAndFind

this is what communists and the ussr did. Not believing in the “good of government dictatorship” was a mental illness. Defectors that were caught were put in mental hospitals.

This is an effort to stop people voting for the next Trump.

Junk science is too respectable a description.


66 posted on 05/09/2017 10:42:44 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SeekAndFind

Muslims that mass murder and rape people = a ok.
Communists that mass murder = a ok
Leftists (basically the same as communists) that rape, murder babies and think men are women = a ok.
Christians that don’t do those things = EVIL and brain damaged.

Uh huh guys, keep trying.


67 posted on 05/09/2017 10:46:54 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: kristinn
Tacoma Park, Maryland

Uh, it's spelled Takoma Park. And it was the home of Doctor Raoul Deming.

68 posted on 05/09/2017 11:37:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind
utilized data gathered from Vietnam War veterans

So, they used a population not only more likely to have lesions of all types, but also exposed to life-or-death situations where most normal people would call upon a higher power, and this is what they came up with? Was there a control population of civilians with no life-or-death situational exposure? Sixth-graders could design a better study than this.

69 posted on 05/09/2017 11:45:10 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

I feel like my mind cleared thanks to religion. I have a moral framework.


70 posted on 05/09/2017 3:44:35 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Suffering shows many people the way to Christ. So what’s new in the world?


71 posted on 05/10/2017 1:38:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So THAT is what is wrong with Moslimss!


72 posted on 05/10/2017 2:07:13 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind
utilized data gathered from Vietnam War veterans

And the data gathered on them reported how religious they were on some sort of scale and not just the religion listed on their dog-tags? I'm calling BS on this "study". This is the same kind of made-up crap that "proves" that conservatives are dumber than average and GW Bush had the lowest IQ of any president in history.

73 posted on 05/19/2017 4:30:53 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: ifinnegan

Exactly. And I’d like to know what their definition of religious “fundamentalist” is. Somebody who goes to church only during Christmas and Easter? Somebody planning to start their own ministry the minute they got out of the military and wanted to be a chaplain when drafted? Somebody who thinks that Jim Jones had it nailed but he just didn’t do it right?

It doesn’t even matter, this is just more made-up crap to shovel on people that they don’t like.


74 posted on 05/19/2017 4:34:07 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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