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Religious beliefs are not linked to intuition or rational thinking, according to new research by the universities of Coventry and Oxford. Previous studies have suggested people who hold strong religious beliefs are more intuitive and less analytical, and when they think more analytically their religious beliefs decrease.
But new research, by academics from Coventry University's Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science and neuroscientists and philosophers at Oxford University, suggests that is not the case, and that people are not 'born believers'. The study -- which included tests on pilgrims taking part in the famous Camino de Santiago and a brain stimulation experiment -- found no link between intuitive/analytical thinking, or cognitive inhibition (an ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and actions), and supernatural beliefs.
Instead, the academics conclude that other factors, such as upbringing and socio-cultural processes, are more likely to play a greater role in religious beliefs.
[Abstract]: Supernatural Belief Is Not Modulated by Intuitive Thinking Style or Cognitive Inhibition
Would you agree with this conclusion or do you believe that there is something else that influences people's religious beliefs ?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:56PM (4 children)
Such a stupid statement it is baffling. First of all it's not religious people, it's one PARTICULAR religion. After that the next ideology that comes NOT EVEN CLOSE, but stands out, is COMMUNISM.
Then you talk about cutting up sexual organs and I am aghast at the projections, where it be the anti-religious ultra-liberal LEFT that pushes SEX CHANGE TO CHILDREN. Motherfucker.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:21PM
Communism != religion
Every major religion has sponsored extreme violence.
There are cases where gender reassignment would be a good thing.
Given that your rabid ranting is so easily undermined with some pretty basic knowledge I'm just gonna file you away as "wacko with an axe to grind" along with "I hope the FBI keeps tabs on THAT AC". One small step from angry rhetoric to shooting up some evil ultra-liberal LEFTISTS! You, you are the type of person that actually scares average people, not mooooslims or dude's with titties.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:22PM (1 child)
1/10. Obvious troll is obvious. Nobody is THAT stupid, even the alt-right conservatards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @10:21PM
SN is becoming a treasure trove for Poe's Law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:36PM
Yeah, those fucking Luterans!!! Especially the Missouri Synod. And is is the ultra-reactionary right that is afraid of paying for sex, and getting something other than what they expected, so they try to force people to stay their birth-gender, against their wills, so they can just check id cards before things get funky!! And Even with CHILDREN! Will no one think of the Children? Besides Roy Moore, will no one think of the Children?? I ask.
(And I only ask because just recently, it struck me. Conservative, Southerner, Religious, claiming law is based on some Hebrew text. . . . What are the odds that Roy Moore's [washingtonpost.com] online persona is MikeeUSA? )