RE: Religion Wires the Brain to Believe Nonsense
October 17, 2018 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2018 at 3:57 pm by Brian37.)
(October 14, 2018 at 2:23 pm)Devout-Humanist Wrote: A neuroscientist explains why evangelicals are wired to believe Trump’s lies.
One reason Trump supporters believe his lies comes from a basic fact about the brain: it takes more mental effort to reject an idea as false than to accept it as true. In other words, it’s easier to believe than to not.
For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the brain’s vulnerability to believing unsupported facts and aggressive indoctrination that create the perfect storm for gullibility.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/neuroscientist-explains-evangelicals-wired-believe-trumps-lies/
Actually religion doesn't do that, our empty brains at birth allow prior generations to fill us with nonsense. You can claim however, that religion does make ignorance harder to overcome.
The God Delusion" gives a evolutionary reason as to why religions exist at all. It does have to do with neurology in that it is a misfire in the brain, much like a dog will bark at their reflection in the mirror. The old "moth to the flame" is another evolutionary example. But human ignorance globally in our species history is not a patent held by one religion.
