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Old 02-15-2010, 11:24 PM
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My understanding is that the human brain develops until we are in our early twenties, and that during this time, the activities we engage in can have a dramatic impact on the final results of our brain's development.

My question (which I hope will trigger some good discussion) is this...

Do you think ongoing exposure to primarily faith-based decision-making as we grow up, versus exposure to evidence-based critical-thinking and reasoning, results in the religious and non-religious having significantly different brains and thought-processes?

And if so...

In addition to things like drugs and alcohol, should religion be something we protect children from until they're brains have fully developed? Or does a parent have the right to entrench their religious beliefs in their child's brain?

Yeah, yeah, before you say it I know... this opening post is bias...
I was a conservative christian until I was 20. Now I'm 25 and highly analytical, critical, and empirical.

I'm also studying psychology as an undergraduate student. I believe that there are both advantages and disadvantages with religion. However, I think it is highly unlikely that anyone will find evidence of neuropathology as a function of religious belief.

Anyways the disadvantages of religious belief might include a poor concept of self, to view onself in black and white terms (i.e., as either bad or good), which is perpetuated by the stigmatization of sex and other "deviant" tendencies which are natural human predispositions... Not to mention self punishment followed by excessive guilt and shame. Christianity provides a destructive and pessimistic view of the ego, worthy of hellish condemnation. It depicts God as this great punisher, who in the end torments people for an eternity. Did I mention that the Bible is the most genocidal religious text?

No doubt that as I learned psychology, I had came to a point where I had to reconcile my poor self-concept and tendency to self-punish, which I attribute partly to incompetent parental upbringing performed within the context of religion.
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Saw that. That was child abuse imo.
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Then again, as long as the Theopolitical ambitions are removed (ie the YOU"RE GOING TO HELL YOU LITTLE EVIL SPAWN OF SATAN style of indoctrinating the young), religion can introduce hypothetical/philisophical thought and skills.
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Then again, as long as the Theopolitical ambitions are removed (ie the YOU"RE GOING TO HELL YOU LITTLE EVIL SPAWN OF SATAN style of indoctrinating the young), religion can introduce hypothetical/philisophical thought and skills.
Are you implying religion is needed for hypothetical/philisophical thought and skills?
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Are you implying religion is needed for hypothetical/philisophical thought and skills?
Absolutely not.

But it can certainly be a contributing factor.
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Absolutely not.

But it can certainly be a contributing factor.
IMO, the only thing religion can contribute to hypothetical or philisophical discussions is of a supernatural nature, which makes any religiously-based hypothetical or philisophical points naturally irrelevant.
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Here's a YouTube link to a short clip by Darrel Ray, an organizational psychologist and author of the book "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture"...


YouTube - The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture

He equates religon to a mind virus, claims sex and guilt go together, and can explain how religion works. Has anyone read his book?
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He equates religon to a mind virus,
Hateful.

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I highly doubt that.

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Has anyone read his book?
No, and having watched the clip, I don't care to.
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