>>10312309Research has shown faith in a higher power and grander order of things is reduced with transcranial magnetic stimulation of a certain region of the brain, involved in threat processing. Therefore I would have to assume that atheists, at their core, are just the opposite. They have a completely and abnormally shut down threat processing center. Which is why they so often mindlessly support the machine, have no capacity for big picture thinking, cannot understand control structures or what may drive events around them, and are generally just boring, small minded little herd animals. I seriously question the character of anyone who hasn't grown out of "hard" atheism by their early-mid twenties.
In my case I'm just "not religious". I'm not agnostic at least by common definitions, I'm not an atheist, I'm just not really highly concerned with it. There are many possibilities, some involving deities, some apart from all that. There are some ideas I pretty much reject as completely implausible. I've studied the major religions. And to me that's the way it ought to be. Though I was raised pretty much secularly, including the religion of science, and therefore have nothing to attach to or strongly rebel from.
I was also pretty much tortured for a long period of time, and there have been many things about the course of my life. I don't have much difficulty understanding the perception of God's plan and the hidden hand. I just get tired of seeing all these false dichotomies and tribal polarizations in human behavior. Some of that behavior makes sense, some of it really doesn't.
