RE: Temporal lobe epilepsy & religious experience.
March 11, 2022 at 8:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2022 at 9:18 pm by Jehanne.)
(March 11, 2022 at 7:12 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(September 1, 2021 at 11:14 am)Jehanne Wrote: At best your observation is that religion is useful, which, of course, does not make it true.
Many Internet atheists give the appearance of having mild autism, or Asperger's.
A need for complete literalism, for example. An inability to empathetically understand the feelings of people who believe differently from themselves, so they attribute it to a purely chemical cause.
This doesn't mean that atheism is the incorrect position, only that in some people it may originate in atypical cognitive differences.
Honestly, I don't think that your observation rises to the level of a poor caricature. I cannot begin to describe the hell that I go through after seeing the bodies of dead children; it's why I stopped watching the news many years ago.
Please, please do not describe (or infer) me as being unsympathetic. I weep (sometimes literally) for religious belief and faith.
(March 11, 2022 at 8:39 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Temporal lobe epilepsy catch all and so on. Carry on.
It's just one psychological explanation with social consequences.
