tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682222629887487594.post8487017867551373029..comments2023-09-20T07:01:22.404-04:00Comments on Mercy Not Sacrifice: What Fundamentalism Does to Your Brain!Cindihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05855877179982985307noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682222629887487594.post-25292575576001169542010-03-07T06:18:34.572-05:002010-03-07T06:18:34.572-05:00Thanks Dena. I want to read more about mirror neu...Thanks Dena. I want to read more about mirror neurons..which I think play a big part in the crowd mentality stuff. It also strengthens Girard's theory of mimetic rivalry. In a New York Times article by Michael Gerson, it says:<br /><br />But Newberg's research offers warnings for the religious as well. Contemplating a loving God strengthens portions of our brain -- particularly the frontal lobes and the anterior cingulate -- where empathy and reason reside. Contemplating a wrathful God empowers the limbic system, which is "filled with aggression and fear." It is a sobering concept: The God we choose to love changes us into his image, whether he exists or not.<br /><br />I've often thought we change God into our image but perhaps it is the other way around...the God we choose to love (whether he exists or not) changes us to his image. <br /><br />Example..those who believe in the OT atrocities (and especially those who condone them) are usually much more gung ho on wars in our own day and age. They say things like these Ann Coulter quotes.....<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.<br /><br /><br />We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />BUT SHE IS A CHRISTIAN!!!! And a Christian before anything else which she adamantly declares when she says:<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.<br />from If Democrats had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans,<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />Hmmmmmmmm......sounds like a fundamentalist to me.....Cindihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855877179982985307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682222629887487594.post-28416902826336162832010-03-05T17:45:24.706-05:002010-03-05T17:45:24.706-05:00BRILLIANT, Cindi!!!!BRILLIANT, Cindi!!!!Denahttp://www.shalomdena.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com