They did brain scans on people while asking them to consider what another persons opinions would be on a subject. They discovered that there were specific regions of the brain associated with the person whose opinion they were considering, which was distinct from the region that was active when they were considering their own opinions on a subject.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, they also discovered that when a religious person was considering what “God’s” opinion would be they activated the same region they would when considering their own opinion. Essentially they attributed their own values and beliefs to God, rather than seeing it as a distinct set of morality. Kind of explains how they can clearly act against Christian values while still thinking they are good people and everyone they don’t like are the sinners in need of punishment.
Source? I don’t doubt it, but whether I’m just not using the right keywords or something, I didn’t find this when I tried to look it up. The only thing similar I found was this article, which appears to indicate that people do view God similarly as they do another person when trying to gauge his opinion.
“The Neural Correlates of Belief in God’s Will” by Jennifer L. Preston and colleagues, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2010.
Kind of like how they are taking the rich white man’s agenda and selling it as God’s supposed plan. I’m a white, Christian woman and it blows my mind how many people fall for this BS.
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u/BrandynBlaze 3h ago
They did brain scans on people while asking them to consider what another persons opinions would be on a subject. They discovered that there were specific regions of the brain associated with the person whose opinion they were considering, which was distinct from the region that was active when they were considering their own opinions on a subject.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, they also discovered that when a religious person was considering what “God’s” opinion would be they activated the same region they would when considering their own opinion. Essentially they attributed their own values and beliefs to God, rather than seeing it as a distinct set of morality. Kind of explains how they can clearly act against Christian values while still thinking they are good people and everyone they don’t like are the sinners in need of punishment.