There has to be something different in the makeup of the christian brain to allow them to believe?

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what they believe.
-A god into blood offerings....needs Christs blood to make everything right,
-A god into incest to populate the world.
_A god that will burn people forever.


And they can justify this god actions as good and loving??
There has to be big diffrences in Christian brains to allow for beliefs like this.....I wonder if there has been any studies?

It has to be more than just brainwashing...as even someone brainwashed surely could see through christianity in time.

These people truly don't hear themselves....I was a christian for 19 years...I read the bible twice...thats why I'm not a christian.....christians...read your bible...so few of you do!!

Answer 1

There is! I remember watching a show about something called "The God Gene" where religious people have a different brain than non-religious people. I'm not making this up!

Also there have been studies to suggest that once a religious person (usually a Christian or one of the Abrahamic religions) believes in his/her religion for so many years, some neural pathways of the brain (connected to reasoning and logic) die off from not using them. So it's hard to "reverse" the thinking of a Christian who has been in that mindset for so many years not just because of "stubbornness" or whatever one would like to call it... it's because the brain has rewired itself.

Answer 2

The human brain is the ultimate Personal Computer, and in a lot of ways it reacts directly according to what has been imprinted upon it. People's religious beliefs have for the most part been indoctrinated into their brains from early childhood, by parents, family, in schools, in churches, around the community and within the society into which they were born and raised.

BUT the brain also has a very individualistic part, and based on the level of strength of that part it may or may not partially or completely be able to overcome childhood conditioning, and actually do its own complete thinking.

A great deal of our social conditioning as children is good and vitally important because we have to develop an understanding of what is expected of us in Society and "learn the rules" if you will. But one way or another, in a very real sense we are all both the victim and the product of our childhood conditioning. In adulthood this ultimately manifests itself in a wide range of beliefs and behaviours across the whole spectrum of good, bad, and downright ugly.

Answer 3

There is a book I started reading called "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast".

It covers this in great detail. The answer is yes:

You need to dumb yourself down to be a believer, or at least turn off your brain. And Christians, don't think you have a monopoly on 'heart' or 'spirituality' either. It necessarily follows that you are dumber in this regard as well. I say this out of desire to help you.



...how did some of your own condescension (in this last paragraph) feel?

Answer 4

Its basically psychological.
With God they fail to see meaning for life, and are flabbergasted by the creed that is science. Such disowning of an afterlife, living" morally", and forgetting of a creator seems inconceivable to the Christian mind.
How can we be here for no reason.
The christians reason is God's reason. In that there has fallen many contradictions, look at the Bible. Still some people need a parachute, while others fall with out one.

Answer 5

Why would you say this? I'm not particularly religious one way or the other, but everyone has a right to their beliefs and Christianity is as diverse a concept as any other "religion" or lack thereof. The shape of ones brain doesn't determine how you believe.
Peoples beliefs depend on a lot of things including life experience, the teachings of parents, churches and schools and the kinds of good and bad events that affect their lives. And if what you wrote above is all you know about Christianity, then maybe you should take a closer look and actually learn what it is all about instead of making crass judgments and mean aspersions on Christians.

Answer 6

Well my personal favorite is that they don't realize that all of their stories were stolen from pagan religions. Blood offerings have been made since probably the dawn of man. The halo is a direct reference to the sun gods of multiple religions. Resurrection is from many cultures, for example the Egyptians. Nothing is new, just reworded. So, yes something is wrong it is the denial of logic and the failure to see that no religion is the "true" religion. But I can hear them now, "You're gonna burn in hell!" or my favorite "I'll pray for you." gotta love it.

Answer 7

it is mostly just brainwashing, your question made me laugh though!!! its so true!!!
also, the Noah's ark thing, has it never occurred to anyone that the beavers would eat the boat? and the lions would eat almost everything on the ship and there would only be about 10 species left!!!

Answer 8

I think there is a spiritual world and that some people get in contact with it. Then they try and share that with other people and that's where the problems begin. I think Jesus was one of those people who got into contact with Sprit. But then he was misinterpreted. I do not believe that God ever wanted blood sacrifices, this was some fool's idea. And God was never into incest or lakes of fire where people burned forever. Again this was some foolish person's idea, not God's. God actually is good and loving, but men's interpretations of what God-realized people have said are very confused and inaccurate.

Answer 9

First of all, That is a completely distorted belief of what Christians believe in. So I am not exactly sure if this question is relevent at all... But I will try to answer it anyways, There is nothing different in the brain of a believer. It is in their heart that they have come to find that there is only one truth to all of lifes who's, what's, when's, where's, and why's... Believers have chosen to move beyond a subjective belief system to a set of solid convictions in the one true God. In each person was created a measure of faith. Believer's have simply grabbed hold of that measure and developed it.

Answer 10

I think it's fear.. Since most of us have been brainwashed into this superstition as a child it is quite difficult to give it up. Especially with the reaction of family and friends.

If you notice, a lot of atheists know much more about the bible than a lot of christians. .I believe this to be the effort placed by the atheist in trying to stick to that belief. In the end.. he had to give in.

Most atheists didn't wake up one day and say... "I think I'll be atheist today".. most atheists usually just realize they are atheist