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It would seem from the research Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism that traumatic brain injury to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and/or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex would be associated with religious fundamentalism, or the narrowing of religious beliefs.
Religious beliefs are socially transmitted mental representations that may include supernatural or supernormal episodes that are assumed to be real. Religious beliefs, like other beliefs, are embedded in different ways in different people and societies (Cristofori & Grafman, in press).
One form of religious belief, religious fundamentalism, embodies adherence to a set of firm religious beliefs advocating unassailable truths about human existence (Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 1992). According to the Baylor Religion Survey, a national survey study conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1721 respondents from the United States, 7.7% of all respondents reported being “Fundamentalist” as a part of their religious identity; 1.0% agreed that “Fundamentalist” was the one term that best described their religious identity (Bader, et al., 2006).
[...] Our study explores whether fundamentalism is modulated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an important brain area involved in social event knowledge, abstractions and higher order social belief systems. Substantial evidence indicates that damage to the PFC can modify individuals’ belief systems (Forbes & Grafman, 2010; Krueger & Grafman, 2012). For instance, patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) lesions rated radical political statements as more moderate than matched controls (Cristofori, Viola, et al., 2015) and focal damage to the vmPFC resulted in greater religious fundamentalism, compared to healthy controls (Asp, Ramchandran, & Tranel, 2012). Thus, although a collection of cortical sectors function together to help shape and formulate beliefs, the PFC may be a critical hub for the representation of the diverse and abstract social beliefs that lie at the core of many religions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Friday April 19 2019, @07:08AM (5 children)
>Religion is a form of social structure meant to deprive individuals from their tribal identities in favor of norms the ruling class can modify based on their economic and geopolitical needs.
A definition that just doesn't fit for one of the main religions who gives the ruling class top the rank of servus servorum and puts all authority in one who warns against wolves in sheep clothing (infiltrates) is a bad definition. Please recalculate.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday April 19 2019, @03:47PM (4 children)
Can you specify? I can't think of any single religion that practices that in the real world.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Friday April 19 2019, @04:17PM (3 children)
Washing the feet of the DISCIPLES is the symbol for what is explicit in “...Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Whether this happens in practice becomes even more relevant for the implicit assertion "fundamentalism = cancer" (beware of implicit assertions, for there lies the propaganda).
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:33PM (2 children)
What symbolism has to do with power balance? Your politico of choice kisses babies as they plot sending them to war to die for their profits. The priests kiss babies while plotting... to kiss babies. Either way, any human organization, regardless of purpose, is corrupted by the nature of man. Churches are the worst since they're designed around "good will" rather than checks and balances. But even the most progressive organization would fail over time to deal with corruption because the very reason people join and lead organization is to benefit themselves over others.
Though I must admit, why a bot needs a misanthropy 101 is beyond me.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday April 21 2019, @05:22PM (1 child)
If I say whether this happens in practice, I leave ample room for this not to happen in practice. But symbolizing the ideals hypocritically is bad for the hypocrite, forgetting about the ideals too is bad for everyone.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday April 22 2019, @06:48AM
But that's coming from the assumption the ideals aren't all hypocrisy and that it wasn't always about power and control. which naive is may be, means you're probably a pretty decent person as long as you don't let your identity politics dictate all your opinions... So I won't bother you anymore :D
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