[ExI] this is your brain on faith

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 12:02:14 UTC 2012


2012/4/23 spike <spike66 at att.net>

> What do you guys make of this?
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> http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/22/can-faith-reside-within-brain/
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> There are comments in there which have the ring of truth, almost
> appropriate for an afterword to Sagan’s excellent work the Demon Haunted
> World.
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Sounds to me as an absurdly parochial view of "spirituality".

"Jesus" and "Satana" fighting for one's "soul" is such an obvious cultural
artifact that all the discussion is akin to one upon the fact that the
letter "s" after all may be encoded in the brain as a marker of grammatical
plural.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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