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Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?

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Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 21, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Indeed, love comes before logic because we are emotional creatures first, and rational creatures second. However what comes from religion is not love, but something that appears to the religious brain like love does to the brain of a person in a relationship with a real person. The acts and thoughts of the believer generate a response in the brain which is pleasurable and psychologically addictive. It is like love in that way, except the object of such brain behaviors is wholly imaginary.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion? - by Angrboda - October 21, 2015 at 1:23 pm

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