I admire you for seeing positives in religion; too many people see it only as a delusion or a burden.
I'm not religious either, but I keep that very much to myself unless someone asks. To me, one of the greatest gifts we can give one another is empathy, and I know that if I believed something deeply and didn't harm anyone through those beliefs, I would get frustrated at someone who kept trying to disabuse me of them for my own good. Their views are different from mine, but our essential humanity is the same. It's more productive to find areas of common ground where religious people and I can agree than to square off about where we differ.
Another thing to consider is the so-called "god gene." Some research suggests that the tendency to spirituality is hereditary. In other words, people of faith might just be born that way. Read up on that; it's fascinating stuff, and it really made me see the attraction to religion in a whole new light.
I will refute any such study right now.
It is impossible for any gene, or group of genes, to code for an Anglo-Germanic generic term for a deity.
I would seriously call into question, the credibility of any Professor of Genetics who made any such ridiculous claims.
This is entirely a learned behaviour, being passed down from one generation to the next.
Archaic.
There is no such thing as a 'spirit', in this Universe, or in any other Universe.
Should you wish to refute this, then please describe the Physical properties of a 'spirit'.
"The God gene hypothesis proposes that a specific gene (VMAT2) predisposes humans towards spiritual or mystic experiences. The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, and author of the 2005 book The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes."
The "god gene" means that some people are predisposed to perceiving things as religious experiences, not that there's proof for the Judeo-Christian god -- or any other specific god, for that matter. When you see a rainbow, you think, "Wow, what a beautiful sight; I'm glad I'm here to see it." When someone with a religious nature sees the same rainbow, he thinks, "Wow, what a beautiful sight; I'm glad my god has given me the wherewithal to appreciate it."
I'm arguing from the point of view of an agnostic, by the way; I'm about 99.9 percent sure I don't have the VMAT2 gene that predisposes me to feel deeply emotional experiences as religious ones, or I surely would have become religious by now.
Why did you not even do the most cursory Google search before you went off on how wrong I was and how you refute stuff I didn't actually say? You were so eager for a religious argument that you didn't bother to do even rudimentary investigation.
As for research I could cite, well...Dean Hamer wrote a whole book called The God Gene, so you could start there.
Please describe the Physical properties of a 'spirit'.
You have used a term which divides a group of people who believe in the teachings of Abraham, from people who also believe in the teachings of Abraham, as well as dividing them from people who have other religious beliefs, and from people who are not religious. The use of this term might be offensive to some people, whether they are religious, or whether they are not religious.
Why are you creating division in society?
You have, however, in so doing, cited the deity variously known as Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH, Allah, among other variants.
What do you know about this deity?
Which other specific deities are you citing?
Please do not use -ists or -isms.
Thank you.
So, because one disillusioned person makes a totally unfounded 'hypothesis', I should waste my time reading their book?
Wouldn't I then just be contributing to greedy ignorance?
So you continue to spread all this around the world, because you're 00.1 per cent unsure?
Is it normal I find religion completely delusional
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I admire you for seeing positives in religion; too many people see it only as a delusion or a burden.
I'm not religious either, but I keep that very much to myself unless someone asks. To me, one of the greatest gifts we can give one another is empathy, and I know that if I believed something deeply and didn't harm anyone through those beliefs, I would get frustrated at someone who kept trying to disabuse me of them for my own good. Their views are different from mine, but our essential humanity is the same. It's more productive to find areas of common ground where religious people and I can agree than to square off about where we differ.
Another thing to consider is the so-called "god gene." Some research suggests that the tendency to spirituality is hereditary. In other words, people of faith might just be born that way. Read up on that; it's fascinating stuff, and it really made me see the attraction to religion in a whole new light.
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Which research or studies are you citing?
I will refute any such study right now.
It is impossible for any gene, or group of genes, to code for an Anglo-Germanic generic term for a deity.
I would seriously call into question, the credibility of any Professor of Genetics who made any such ridiculous claims.
This is entirely a learned behaviour, being passed down from one generation to the next.
Archaic.
There is no such thing as a 'spirit', in this Universe, or in any other Universe.
Should you wish to refute this, then please describe the Physical properties of a 'spirit'.
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Let me Google that for you, shall I?
"The God gene hypothesis proposes that a specific gene (VMAT2) predisposes humans towards spiritual or mystic experiences. The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, and author of the 2005 book The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes."
The "god gene" means that some people are predisposed to perceiving things as religious experiences, not that there's proof for the Judeo-Christian god -- or any other specific god, for that matter. When you see a rainbow, you think, "Wow, what a beautiful sight; I'm glad I'm here to see it." When someone with a religious nature sees the same rainbow, he thinks, "Wow, what a beautiful sight; I'm glad my god has given me the wherewithal to appreciate it."
I'm arguing from the point of view of an agnostic, by the way; I'm about 99.9 percent sure I don't have the VMAT2 gene that predisposes me to feel deeply emotional experiences as religious ones, or I surely would have become religious by now.
Why did you not even do the most cursory Google search before you went off on how wrong I was and how you refute stuff I didn't actually say? You were so eager for a religious argument that you didn't bother to do even rudimentary investigation.
As for research I could cite, well...Dean Hamer wrote a whole book called The God Gene, so you could start there.
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Which deity are you referring to?
Please describe the Physical properties of a 'spirit'.
You have used a term which divides a group of people who believe in the teachings of Abraham, from people who also believe in the teachings of Abraham, as well as dividing them from people who have other religious beliefs, and from people who are not religious. The use of this term might be offensive to some people, whether they are religious, or whether they are not religious.
Why are you creating division in society?
You have, however, in so doing, cited the deity variously known as Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH, Allah, among other variants.
What do you know about this deity?
Which other specific deities are you citing?
Please do not use -ists or -isms.
Thank you.
So, because one disillusioned person makes a totally unfounded 'hypothesis', I should waste my time reading their book?
Wouldn't I then just be contributing to greedy ignorance?
So you continue to spread all this around the world, because you're 00.1 per cent unsure?