Toon of the Day
There is a god part of the brain whether the religious
chose to acknowledge it not. The right frontal lobe of the
cerebral cortex exhibits greatly increased neural activity during
prayer, sermons, thought about beliefs or gods, or even when given
verbal spiritual and supernatural terms and words to
process. It doesn't matter which god, which religion, what
kind of prayer, or meditation, its all the same; a spot of the right
brain fires off like a cancer of activity accomplishing nothing except
false solace and perceived, yet temporary, relaxation to the
body. Its a powerful feeling and becomes drug like. The
captoon at the left only displays a few of it's symptoms as they
manifest to the public. Most of these symptoms affect all of us,
because believers are in every community. Narrowed vision that
believes there is a supernatural universe impedes our scientific and technological
progress. Guilty sinners crack under their burden and commit
heinous crimes against the innocent that they can justify, rightly or
not, as an act of redemption through the supernatural entity or a
god. Cult dependency combines with strange rituals to aid and
comfort those involved in feeding their right frontal brain
spots. Group compliance becomes an affirmation that the believer
is not crazy. The fathers the believers never knew, or wish they
had, are easily replaced by icons and drawings of the all powerful
"father of us all." At it's extreme; loud thoughts
from the subconscious lend certainty that there exists a separate self
within. The god part of the brain's thoughts, trained over time
to emit spiritual garble, become the voice of him, or her, or it (a
god). Belief in the supernatural is not healthy for children and
other living things.
James G. Mason
see my atheism web site: Atheism - It's Not
What You Believe
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