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God on the Brain
Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.
Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology.
You know what they say about great minds here and
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The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie
For several decades, to the present moment, Israel's treatment of Palestinian people has amounted to methodical and despicable violations of human rights. Yet criticism of those policies from anyone (including American Jews such as myself) routinely results in accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry.
Mark Fiore flash video on Bush as Special Agent Man
Robertson claimed evolutionists worship atheism (tip AgitatedMonk)
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Re: God on the Brain. Perhaps this is the explanation for Jeanne d'Arc's visions.
Posted by: Jo Ann
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April 14, 2006 10:46 AM
"Robertson claimed evolutionists worship atheism"
Where have I heard this kind of rhetoric before? I have been surfing the Christian blogs and this is the current mantra from all of them re atheism - "Atheism is a religion", "Atheism is a cult", "To be an atheist requires faith"... The Christians are doing all they can to discredit evolution and the liberal Christians are unwittingly helping them out by helping to spread this kind of Christian/Pat Robertson newspeak.
Posted by: Jo Ann
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April 14, 2006 11:36 AM
"Robertson claimed YADDAYADDA"
I always feel very uncomfortable when christians resort to this name calling strategy. If they don't get a deeper understanding in the actual qualities of their religion (which it should better have, to pass the logical test for existance besides science [read: If religion WAS in competition to science, it would deny its own foundation]), they will end up losing the battle that they made up themselves.
Some time ago I was discussing a similar matter with a good friend of mine, who is a christian, and more and more realized that I already projected my "all christians think like this" on him. He was so kind to pass me the "there are things about my beliefs that I just can't explain to you"-card.
I would really enjoy to see some more able, contemporary theists on this page. Not that I am one, but I feel that they have a point to make. And they sometimes have a good repertoire of pro-belief arguments that can stand a test (though possibly unsatisfying to some). And it can have quite an astonishing effect on your opponent in a discussion, to show him how much better he could be talking about his point.
Then again, those theists might be quite hard to find, especially on tape.
Posted by: skOre | April 14, 2006 4:35 PM