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Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study
philly.com ^
| 2012-03-20
| Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Posted on 03/21/2012 12:16:40 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Saw this coming decades ago. The potential for abuse is incalculable. However, do I find my born again friends can’t be bothered to reason too vigorously? Sadly, it does seem that way. Why would you need to think about anything, if all the answers are written down?
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posted on
03/21/2012 4:46:34 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...well, half-right, at least.)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
This is trying to make out believers as something less than human......it’s what all tyrants try todo to justifyntheirmgenocidal plans for a certain group.
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posted on
03/21/2012 4:48:29 AM PDT
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: mo
“to justify their genocidal plans...”. Not enough coffee I guess!
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posted on
03/21/2012 4:49:28 AM PDT
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: TigersEye
Shrinkage?
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posted on
03/21/2012 4:55:38 AM PDT
by
newfreep
(Breitbart sent me...)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
It’s all manipulative bull. It has nothing to do with science. It is conducted in the spirit of eugenics - separating out and dehumanizing those the Left wants to kill from the ones they tolerate. They hope it will lead to Christians denying Jesus for fear of being labeled retarded. In the new deathcare rationing system, retarded people won’t fair too well.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Straight out of the mouth of Lucifer himself.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Does this mean they’re qualified for disability?
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posted on
03/21/2012 5:29:23 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: SaraJohnson
“It is conducted in the spirit of eugenics...retarded people wont fair too well.”
Eugenics, the “science” used by Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler.
Just like today’s Godless leftists, Nazis were all about demonizing the innocent (racist, terrorist TEA party) and euthanizing the unwanted (abortion).
It does not surprise me they try to label Christians as retarded, because Nazis had them exterminated for the “greater good”.
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posted on
03/21/2012 5:40:44 AM PDT
by
MikeSteelBe
(Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Nothing like some good old fashion Nazi propaganda by our resident leftist elitist media in the morning.
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posted on
03/21/2012 5:42:30 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
To: skr
hippocampal, not hippcampalDang, I thought there was a new word to learn. I am having serious hip problems and though that "hippcampal" might be for ME this time. :o)
To: Pat4ever
Well, 268 subjects isn't a lot of people to study for much of anything. Also, they hypothesize that the "stress" of being "outside the mainstream" as far as religious beliefs causes the shrinkage. I didn't see any mention in the article where they looked at other sources of stress in the subjects' lives. As someone else mentioned, financial status or problems could be a source of stress, but so could a lot of things (such as being a caregiver for an ill family member, having losses in one's life, and so on and so forth).
There are an awful lot of variables to control for to make this sort of study meaningful and I'm not reading where they did that.
To: MikeSteelBe
The modern Left wants to pull a Hitler on Christians. They can’t go after all Christians in America - the number is too large. Polarization is the name of leftist the power game.
They can select a clearly defined group of Christians and demonize them - small brained nothings. Being secular herd followers, most Chrisitans not demonized will happily yell “kill him” (not us!.) Jewish “leaders” (communists and bigots) will yell for the deaths, too.
It’s coming. I plan, that if this happens in my lifetime, to be murdered even though I am not of a particular Christian church. I am a Christian of whatever the elitists contemplate murdering. F them; they will go to hell.
To: RightOnline
Translation: If youre born again, youre stooooooopid.Good thing for the liberals no African-Americans have ever been "born again!" [/sarc]
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:10:27 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: SaraJohnson
They can select a clearly defined group of Christians and demonize them - small brained nothings.That's exactly what some chr*stian FReepers do to other chr*stian FReepers.
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:15:30 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: the invisib1e hand; SaraJohnson
However, do I find my born again friends cant be bothered to reason too vigorously? Sadly, it does seem that way. Why would you need to think about anything, if all the answers are written down?See what I mean?
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:18:24 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: F15Eagle
I’d rather be ‘stupid’ for Jesus than whatever fate awaits godless ‘geniuses’.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:31:59 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
All of 1 Corinthians addresses this topic, but I give the heart:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)
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