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Religious people 'cling to certain beliefs'.
The Daily Mail ^ | 7/28/17 | PHOEBE WESTON

Posted on 07/28/2017 4:18:32 PM PDT by NYAmerican

Religious people's minds are dominated by emotion and not analytical thinking which makes them cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong - a study claims. Such 'Emotional resonance' can make individuals hold on to their faith. Meanwhile, militant atheists are completely negative about religion because they have analytical brains, according to researchers.

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KEYWORDS: atheism; faith; religion
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"Study" body: "209 participants identified as Christian, 153 as nonreligious, nine Jewish, five Buddhist, four Hindu, one Muslim and 24 another religion." Because, as any educated person knows, Christians are violent maniacs, while Muslims are analytical peace lovers.
1 posted on 07/28/2017 4:18:33 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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... cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong.

Pot, meet Kettle.

2 posted on 07/28/2017 4:20:44 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: NYAmerican

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_Nobel_laureates


3 posted on 07/28/2017 4:20:49 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Really? Who dah thought.


4 posted on 07/28/2017 4:20:57 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: NYAmerican

Militant atheists have a religion, atheism.


5 posted on 07/28/2017 4:23:18 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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“Religious people’s minds are dominated by emotion and not analytical thinking which makes them cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong”

Global Warming Freak’s minds are dominated by emotion and not analytical thinking which makes them cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong

Liberal Deomcrap’s minds are dominated by emotion and not analytical thinking which makes them cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong

People that voted for Hillary Clinton mind’s are dominated by emotion and not analytical thinking which makes them cling to their views - even when evidence proves them wrong

Amazingly easy!


6 posted on 07/28/2017 4:25:15 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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Yeah, like all atheists are smarter than Thomas Aquinas.


7 posted on 07/28/2017 4:25:49 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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Total opposite is true. Scientific discoveries of the last century (a moving universe with a starting point, the complexity of DNA) have actually supported creationism. This has given us ammo for new arguments in favor of God’s existence.

Meanwhile, atheists are actually clinging to the old, outdated arguments of Bertrand Russell and Friedrich Nietzche. Read any neo-Atheist book by Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens and you’re reading the same regurgitated claims from 150 years ago repackaged.

If atheism and science were mutually inclusive, you’d think atheists would be coming up with new claims and arguments.

And as far as being analytical instead of emotional, get on Twitter and wade into the atheist cesspool and start making arguments for God, and see what happens. Short of ten seconds and these hysterical, emotional troglodytes are screaming at you that you’re a superstitious, witch-hunting, Nazi cult-member!


8 posted on 07/28/2017 4:27:58 PM PDT by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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so where does that leave the religion of worshiping the earth, those that cling to the false belief of man made warming, even though the analytical evidence is not there, or how about the atheists who don't believe life begins at conception, based not on science but emotion ? Seems too they are confusing irrational emotional decisions with faith, two very different things that they probably don't even know the difference ..
9 posted on 07/28/2017 4:29:30 PM PDT by seastay
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Atheists cling to old dead guys.


10 posted on 07/28/2017 4:30:32 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me covfefe in the Deplorable Basket)
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The real emotional resonance is what atheists feel when they think they’ve liberated themselves from God’s Commandments.


11 posted on 07/28/2017 4:30:51 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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, Christians are violent maniacs, while Muslims are analytical peace lovers.

other than the beheadings, female genital mutilation, and killing nonbelievers at will, I guess they are peaceful??????

12 posted on 07/28/2017 4:30:53 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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Atheists would just love it if Christians had no faith and were therefore much more malleable.


13 posted on 07/28/2017 4:32:11 PM PDT by ransomnote
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There’s that BITTER CLINGER thing...

And I ain’t emotional,just well armed.


14 posted on 07/28/2017 4:32:35 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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Every American should have the right to know the religious heritage, ethnic background, and associated political beliefs of every politician and criminal, as religion and ethnic background makes people tick and makes them cronies or threats.


15 posted on 07/28/2017 4:34:42 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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Christians Mathematicians cling to certain beliefs (replace Christian with any logical or scientific field)
16 posted on 07/28/2017 4:35:34 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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“dominated by emotion”

Dionesian? What a crock.


17 posted on 07/28/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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Why would I read such a stupid article...?

I cling to Christ because of the power of his resurrection and his word has transformed my life...


18 posted on 07/28/2017 4:36:15 PM PDT by Popman
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religious people cling to beliefs because they KNOW that they are true...atheists cling to nothing because they believe in NOTHING.


19 posted on 07/28/2017 4:37:50 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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Ya, islam is a religion of peace, except for the inconvenient truths you mentioned. Except for all that violence and barbarism , Islam is actually quite peaceful..........


20 posted on 07/28/2017 4:37:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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