Q&A: Atheists who used this sarcastic response: Did you know it was actually correct?
by alaska on Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 | 21 Comments
Question by Techno Destructo : Atheists who used this sarcastic response: Did you know it was actually correct? Did you know that every time someone has asked how they can become a believer and you sarcastically responded “Brain damage”, that you were actually correct?
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/88252 Best answer:
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Another Science vs. Faith thingy.
I’ll vote for FAITH!
An even more direct correlation than I would have suspected.
What if God is with those who suffer traumatic events. And that’s why they become more spiritual. Maybe their survival is owed to God.
Yup, I did. People who have psychotic disorders, brain damage, or a genetic defect called the bicameral mind (more common a few thousand years ago than it is today, incidentally) are far more likely to be religious.
And yet they insist I’m simply being mean when I say fundies are delusional. I’m not. I’m being quite literal.
lol .. good find! and Yes.
E.G.White and several other ‘modern prophets’ have had major head trauma. Too funny.
Interestingly, the effects of damage to the right parietal lobe match with previous studies looking at brain activity in meditating Buddhist monks. When they achieved a transcendental state, activity in their parietal lobes was also quelled.
Bored? No school today?
And those without brain damage?
A waist of research time and funding.
Wait, you thought we were being sarcastic?
It is difficult to know whether to take this seriously or to just LOL.
After all, it’s well known that when a person suffers a serious brain injury, there are almost always pervasive changes.
A personality change is not at all uncommon. A heightened spirituality might be found in the midst of all of the trauma. Such trauma inevitably makes a person wonder, “Why me?” If they nearly died, they might think, “Why was I spared?”
The brain site in question, if indeed it does govern one’s sense of spatial relationships — and I have no reason to believe it does not — then trauma to that area would result in some circumstances in a diminution of one’s correct processing of spatial perceptions. This is linked in some cases to various types of experiences that closely mimic out-of-body experiences (when fully awake — fortunately, they are usually transient and brief!).
I suppose the writer is suggesting that all of the faithful were dropped on our heads as children. LOL indeed.
However, it’s also important to bear in mind what the article literally says. Such brain injuries cause a person to test higher on a test that is supposed to measure spirituality. Just as a score on an IQ test is at best an indicator of how well a person does in taking IQ tests, a test of what somebody calls spirituality tests things that some clinician somewhere seems to have guessed translates into a heightened state of spirituality.
Similarly, you will find that if you amputate the right hand from one hundred people, all of a sudden, you discover that you’ve created a whole bunch of left-handed people.
My response to the results? So what?