Thinking analytically reduces religious belief:

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-analytic-decrease-religious-belief.html

So whatever you do, RJ Hinds, Dasa, Jaywill, and company, don't go in for actual thinking analytically. It will be detrimental to your religious health.

Satan marches on.

Yet another indication of the latter days.

But I guess 90% isn't nearly enough for him; he wants 99.9999%. The good news is that it still won't be enough to win. The bad news is that those 99.9999% will pay dearly for the attempt.

Originally posted by black beetle
Instead of acknowledging that the observer universe is all that is the case, the theologian insists that all that is the case is his God (he read it in his Holy Book). “Analysis” for the theologian starts from this exact blind belief and it goes like this:

Instead of acknowledging that the observer universe is the totality of facts and not of things, ...[text shortened]... ut evidence is pure noise, so to me theology is the mother of the noise (its father is fear)
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Ah, Wittgenstein in the morning! 🙂

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.” Albert Camus

Originally posted by Suzianne
But I guess 90% isn't nearly enough for him; he wants 99.9999%. The good news is that it still won't be enough to win. The bad news is that those 99.9999% will pay dearly for the attempt.

There will only be about 7 people not on Satans side? Or are you desperately trying to avoid thinking analytically in case Satan gets you?

Originally posted by googlefudge
....you are as ever arguing against an imaginary person....
robbie carrobie
i am not an imaginary person

As robbie argues against himself instead of the OP, we see that his religious belief is not in any imminent danger of being reduced.

Originally posted by vistesd
Ah, Wittgenstein in the morning! 🙂

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.” Albert Camus

Sure thing🙂

We leave the ladder at the backyard when the job is done😵

Originally posted by Suzianne
Satan marches on.

Yet another indication of the latter days.

But I guess 90% isn't nearly enough for him; he wants 99.9999%. The good news is that it still won't be enough to win. The bad news is that those 99.9999% will pay dearly for the attempt.

You mean paying for the attempt by using our analytical thinking to do stuff like putting people on the moon, making anti-cancer drugs, the computers we all love, airplanes that go 2000 miles an hour, materials that someday may make a space elevator possible, to get into space without rockets, so all that stuff using analytical thinking is from the power of the devil.

We are in deep doo doo then🙂

Originally posted by sonhouse
You mean paying for the attempt by using our analytical thinking to do stuff like putting people on the moon, making anti-cancer drugs, the computers we all love, airplanes that go 2000 miles an hour, materials that someday may make a space elevator possible, to get into space without rockets, so all that stuff using analytical thinking is from the power of the devil.

We are in deep doo doo then🙂

But not for you sonhouse. You have only to look forward to your glorious
funeral because you don't believe in all the bull crap. Don't Worry, Be Happy!

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-analytic-decrease-religious-belief.html

So whatever you do, RJ Hinds, Dasa, Jaywill, and company, don't go in for actual thinking analytically. It will be detrimental to your religious health.

Even though I am a theist, I wouldn't disagree with this. In any spiritual belief process there has to be an element of suspending rationality, even if it is just accepting that what you believe has no external evidential factors.

Originally posted by divegeester
Even though I am a theist, I wouldn't disagree with this. In any spiritual belief process there has to be an element of suspending rationality, even if it is just accepting that what you believe has no external evidential factors.

But one result of this research shows people who are religious do worse on real world tasks. I guess that means the hard stuff has to be left to agnostics and atheists, eh.

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-analytic-decrease-religious-belief.html

So whatever you do, RJ Hinds, Dasa, Jaywill, and company, don't go in for actual thinking analytically. It will be detrimental to your religious health.

You should know these studies are biased and don't prove anything.
It said "can" not "does". So they admit by this that it is all speculation.
In my case analytical thinking led to my belief in God and has even
gotten stronger with more analytical thinking when it comes to the
Christian religion. It all depends on what is analyzed. All the analyzing
that has been done on the Shroud of Turin points to its authenticity,
even though one erroneous report of carbon dating had the atheists
very happy in their desire to believe it is a fake.

Originally posted by RJHinds
You should know these studies are biased and don't prove anything.
It said "can" not "does". So they admit by this that it is all speculation.
In my case analytical thinking led to my belief in God and has even
gotten stronger with more analytical thinking when it comes to the
Christian religion. It all depend on what is analyzed. All the analyzing
...[text shortened]... port of carbon dating had the atheists
very happy in their desire to believe it is a fake.

Your self-styled self-aggrandizing so-called analyitical thinking is just boasting about your own blinders on reality.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Your self-styled self-aggrandizing so-called analyitical thinking is just boasting about your own blinders on reality.

When it comes to all religions other than Christianity, then I agree
that analytical thinking can and should lead to reduced religious
belief in those systems. However, it would take false analysis to
lead someone not to believe in Christianity.

Originally posted by RJHinds
When it comes to all religions other than Christianity, then I agree
that analytical thinking can and should lead to reduced religious
belief in those systems. However, it would take false analysis to
lead someone not to believe in Christianity.

Amazing, your analytical blindness showing up several ways simultaneously.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Amazing, your analytical blindness showing up several ways simultaneously.

Ha ha ha. You are dumbfounded with amazement. HalleluYah !!!
Blinded by the Light.

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Originally posted by RJHinds
Ha ha ha. You are dumbfounded with amazement. HalleluYah !!!
Blinded by the Light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-GqYkwjTM

I wonder how much wasted brainpower there is in the total population of humans who believe all that BS you and your kind proclamate? That is to say, how big a brain do you really need if you believe all that stuff, since you are cutting out so much of your own analytical ability, short circuiting your brain cells with self defeating attitudes.
I bet religious folk could get by with the brain power of a healthy chimpanzee.

You could have a lobotomy and be as happy as a pig in poop.