How I feel when I debate Christians

Thank you so much for writing such an informative comment! I always greatly appreciate when someone like you shares real hard hitting information like this! Lotta truth there I sincerely hope more people read this

@TheDemonKing: to be fair the whole second paragraph is copy and pasted. A diminished chord is a triad built from the root note, minor third, and a diminished fifth. It’s a chord with two minor thirds above the root. Meaning three semitones separate the third and fifth notes of the chord.

@communistnazicapitalist: copy and pasted or not this is still important information and I do appreciate you putting it here for everyone to read

the human psychological inclination to define and protect the self and in group identity or self-conception is a core aspect of our functioning. It's a psycho-social process that optimizes the mind to become a heuristic. The strongest signals are expressed through sequential activation of cortical pathways. because it takes energy (ATP) to regulate calcium ion channels also known as "thought" the activity is regulated by the neural machinery known as the protein biome. The instructions for the proteins are obviously in the DNA, but how those proteins are expressed in terms of quantity and quality, as each gene can produce multiple forms of a protein, is determined by a natural feedback mechanism inherent to the internal environment of the cell. This is what's is known as epi-genetics and it's directly tied to the feedback mechanism known as "thought". This is how Religion damages the brain, Think of every part of the brain as a muscle group it's use it or lose it. As an example even if you were able to restore a blind man's sight through technological means their brains wouldnt have the neural the network configured to process those signals, especially if they were born blind (think paraplegic suddenly being able to walk but no muscles to do it with) Their brains would litteraly have to learn to see. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) is a higher level subcomponent of the brain that is responsible for intro-spective thought, This is the part of the brain that is damaged by Religious fundumentalism, true die hard adherents to a faith. The tool or ice pick by which this labotomy is performed is ritual(chruch) and mantra(prayer). Ever wonder where the phrase in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king came from? well this is the truth behind it. This is why all religion is evil. But to reiterate the human psychological inclination to define and protect the self and in group identity or self-conception is at core of what religion exploits. The problem is not throwing out the baby with the bath water

@Electrolytic: You are missing a very important piece of that puzzle. The Religious specifically Abrahamic are not given any reason to think about many things,simple stupid emotionally driven answers are presented to them in order to prevent them from actually contemplating anything their book of lies already answered for them. By never using their brains to learn about these complex nuaced difficult to understand subjects their brains never develop the capacity to do so. And it hurts their feeling and it's hard for them to try,so the vast majority sink back into the arms of god to remain blissfully ignorant because it is easier. The brain can overcome having it's development stunted by religion but just like any other red pill you must go through a deep valley of negative feelings and harsh truths which defy comfortable lies. If a man isn't strong enough they can never break free because they cannot handle the mental emotional pain of doing so

@TheDemonKing: Neuralplasticity is amazing I will admit. However, it has it's limits. For example; psychopaths have a part of the brain that doesnt function and based on behavior the brain can't seem to compensate for that missing sub component. In my opinion it is the mechanism of strict long term adeherance to a faith. As it replaces the self with the group identity for one and two it negates the need for introspective thought since you have faith your doing what is right. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex ceases to develop and in time completely atrophies like a muscle due to lack of use. That why in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. religius leaders go around poking out everyones eyes (Plebs) and even though they themselves have only one eye (psychopaths) in this way they can rule. But God forbid you eat the apple and listen to the serpent (to borrow from their mythos) first to nuritious the body to feed the mind the second to rub the religion out of your eyes

@TheDemonKing: At least on some level you what keeps people faithful? The fact that it is easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled