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#1407768
MK
Yes lord, make me dumb and ignorant, shrink my brain so that it is capable of nothing but babbling, so that I can be a complete slave to your every whim. Amuunnnnnghhhh.
5/29/2012 3:10:08 AM
#1407769
Creedence Leonore Gielgud
"Learning what exactly?"
Nothing of value, now please get me my fries.
5/29/2012 3:19:08 AM
#1407770
CinnamonGull
Yeah. We're just waiting for the breathing control centres in your brain to atrophy, so you can choke and die.
5/29/2012 3:19:44 AM
#1407772
nuspirit
It's funny how they immediately assume that the study denigrates believers while it actually doesn't. Must be that brain atrophy at work...
5/29/2012 3:24:29 AM
#1407773
Satan is actually the good guy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what he's basically saying is "My brain is rotting and I like it".
5/29/2012 3:32:53 AM
#1407775
Raised by Horses
"Perhaps God shuts down parts of our minds.."
Sounds about right.
5/29/2012 3:37:30 AM
#1407779
Mudak
I don't suppose it's necessary to point out the age-old correlation/causation bit with this study to these people, do I?
Btw, why is anti-semitism listed in this propaganda list?
5/29/2012 3:41:31 AM
#1407783
Well, at least (s)he doesn't like anti-semites. That's gotta count for something, right?
5/29/2012 3:55:40 AM
#1407785
Extraintrovert
Religious fundamentalists value ignorance and self-satisfaction over reason, evidence and reality, part Eleventy Zillion.
Looking at the article for the study though, it seems to only demonstrate a correlation instead of a correlation - like that study showing a connection between conservative political beliefs and parts of the brain associated with reactionary behaviour -and admits that the study doesn't account for other factors linked to hippocampal shrinkage.
5/29/2012 3:55:59 AM
#1407790
Reynardine
More evidence that a pin head is never sharp.
5/29/2012 4:11:26 AM
#1407818
Mister Spak
"Perhaps God shuts down the parts of our minds"
That explains so much.
5/29/2012 5:18:20 AM
#1407820
SpukiKitty
So Fundy-God causes brain damage?
I DON'T like your "God".
My "God" is all for Reason, Love & PLEASURE! Yours is a tyranical poopyhead!
Sounds like a variant of THIS CLASSIC FSTDT quote:
http://fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=61678
As I say, with fundies & bigots, "Ignorance is next to godliness".
5/29/2012 5:20:11 AM
#1407831
Xotan
"Perhaps God shuts down the parts of our minds that would continue to absorb the overwhelming daily propaganda of this world {evolution, the "green" movement, socialism, anti-semitism, gay marriage etc...}"
- So much then for free will! Essentially this is the evil of Calvinism dressed up to make it seem more acceptable to rational people. Sorry. the argument is so transparent that I saw through it at once. So would anyone with even the smallest number of grey cells. Fundies fool themselves into such lines of thinking, and therefore are idiots who reject our (supposedly) God-given intelligence.
5/29/2012 5:40:49 AM
#1407832
OhJohnNo
This deserves all the WTFs.
ALL OF THEM.
5/29/2012 5:41:40 AM
#1407837
Brendan Rizzo
These people will do anything to deny the evidence that is staring them in the face. For some reason I doubt that study applies only to Christians. What about the Muslims or Hindus who also have smaller-than-average hippocampi? Is God protecting them from reason too?
5/29/2012 5:58:19 AM
#1407838
breakerslion
"Perhaps God shuts down the parts of our minds that would continue to absorb the overwhelming daily propaganda of this world..."
That's not God, sweetie, that's the lack of oxygen to your brain caused by having your head so far up your ass.
5/29/2012 5:58:33 AM
#1407846
Moose
Does anyone know where I can find the study?
5/29/2012 6:15:10 AM
#1407847
dionysus
Perhaps God shuts down the parts of our minds that would continue to absorb the overwhelming daily propaganda of this world
No, it's not God that's shutting down your learning center of the brain. It's years of neglect because holier-then-thou fundies think they know everything there is to know and refuse to listen to any new arguments, preferring to instead stay in the echo chamber listening to the same talking points over and over again ad infinitum.
5/29/2012 6:18:33 AM
#1407848
Reynardine
People don't wear hats any more, or I'd refer you to a maker of first-rate doll clothes.
5/29/2012 6:18:55 AM
#1407853
Doubting Thomas
Why would a god give us a brain and then keep us from trying to use it? Sorry, but that's no god I want to worship.
5/29/2012 6:25:34 AM
#1407857
KaneChrinicler
....while filling the void with His ways. Of course secular scientists would see it as "brain atrophy" but I like the trade off!
Why do they make it so easy?
5/29/2012 6:28:21 AM
#1407864
Horsefeathers
Brain damaged and proud of it, apparently.
5/29/2012 6:52:19 AM
#1407869
Thinking Allowed
Only on RR could this make any sense.
5/29/2012 7:04:21 AM
#1407874
D Laurier
Or maybe you are just stupid.
5/29/2012 7:16:28 AM
#1407883
Filin De Blanc
So God is making you mentally retarded and you're glad. Great.
5/29/2012 7:33:20 AM
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