If you are religious now and were non-religious before

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Anonymous wrote:Becoming “born again” has been associated with brain damage. Draw your own conclusions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068149/

Picture a Venn diagram with two circles, one for brain damage and one for being born again. Then picture the tiny piece where these circles overlap, and draw your own conclusions about pp’s ability to interpret scientific papers.

Here another one-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500821/

Lots of theories abound, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that there are many factors beyond individual choice that influence religious thinking. OP asked “what changed to make them religious” - for a fair number of people, it’s their brains that changed.

Again, brain damage causes lots of behavioral changes. Doesn’t mean all religious people are brain damaged. Don’t sacrifice logic to make a bigoted point.

Please don't change meaning to make a bigoted point. Pp never mentioned "brain damage" - you did.

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My brother was the opposite. He was quiet and thoughtful. Then he lost any sense of direction and became obsessed with left wing politics. He is not a nice person anymore.

Because he no longer tolerates BS from his religious/RWNJ family members?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you religious now, or what changed? What do you believe now?

I believe in the interconnectedness of all life. Learning about rhizomes and how tress of different species help each other with the help of other organisms is fascinating to me. I think is has always been a part of me, but I am learning more and I am able to get out into nature more. I am also finding that the moon cycles, the earth's orbit and sun cycles are also something I want to observe and celebrate. I am more drawn to the moon cycles though.

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I love how DCUM’s atheists simply ignore actual stories about becoming more religious, in answer to OP’s question, and instead keep on insulting other posters. So typical.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you religious now, or what changed? What do you believe now?

I believe in the interconnectedness of all life. Learning about rhizomes and how tress of different species help each other with the help of other organisms is fascinating to me. I think is has always been a part of me, but I am learning more and I am able to get out into nature more. I am also finding that the moon cycles, the earth's orbit and sun cycles are also something I want to observe and celebrate. I am more drawn to the moon cycles though.

You're spiritual. Not uncommon these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Becoming “born again” has been associated with brain damage. Draw your own conclusions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068149/

This is from the link you posted. I didn’t know 92% of Americans believe in God!

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Anonymous wrote:Becoming “born again” has been associated with brain damage. Draw your own conclusions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068149/

This is from the link you posted. I didn’t know 92% of Americans believe in God!

did I read that correctly - it was published in 2011? If not, I apologize. But the number of people identifying as religious has been declining steadily for the last 10 years.

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Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

sorry: https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

Why do you feel a need to post this sort of thing even on a thread about people becoming more religious? This must fill some deep need you have, but from the outside it looks pretty obsessive.

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

Why do you feel a need to post this sort of thing even on a thread about people becoming more religious? This must fill some deep need you have, but from the outside it looks pretty obsessive.

Just replying to that misleading post at 15:01. Some people, I'm sure, have become more religious for reasons of their own, but just a handful have posted above. Fewer than I thought would actually.

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

Why do you feel a need to post this sort of thing even on a thread about people becoming more religious? This must fill some deep need you have, but from the outside it looks pretty obsessive.

Seems relevant to me and not anything that need stem from "Deep need" of any sort.

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

Why do you feel a need to post this sort of thing even on a thread about people becoming more religious? This must fill some deep need you have, but from the outside it looks pretty obsessive.

Seems relevant to me and not anything that need stem from "Deep need" of any sort.

It’s obsessive and pathological. More real than the silly distortions about brain damage.

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Anonymous wrote:Pew from 2019

Fewer and fewer people identify as religious.https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

Why do you feel a need to post this sort of thing even on a thread about people becoming more religious? This must fill some deep need you have, but from the outside it looks pretty obsessive.

Seems relevant to me and not anything that need stem from "Deep need" of any sort.

It’s obsessive and pathological. More real than the silly distortions about brain damage.

Says obsessive and pathological pp.

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Anonymous wrote:Collins gave several reasons for his faith, including his conviction, as one of the top DNA researchers in the country, that evolution is more than just the result of random changes to DNA.

It’s true that faith is apart from science. But focussing on waterfalls when there’s so much more in the podcast seems a little… petty.

Petty, but accurate. It seemed petty to me when I first heard Collins' account, years ago. I didn't listen to the podcast. I already knew about Collins' conversion

Collins didn’t even talk about waterfalls in this podcast. You can’t talk about Collins based on something he said “years ago.” Maybe his views have changed, but you have no clue.

Seriously, your posts need to be filled away as “irrelevant.”

DP: Incidentally, I can see how a waterfall that separates into three parts that one still thinks of a single waterfall could be an "aha! now I get it" moment for someone struggling with the concept of a trinity, especially given the nature or water.