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Notice how even though this "study" implicates both religious and non-religious, the headline writer chooses only the part about the "born again" having "brain atrophy".
1 posted on 03/21/2012 12:16:46 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
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Both groups had "more" shrinkage. More than who it doesn't say.

No one had as much hippocampal shrinkage as the authors of this study.

2 posted on 03/21/2012 12:24:55 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Translation: If you’re born again, you’re stooooooopid.

God save us from these a**holes.


4 posted on 03/21/2012 12:31:25 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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IOW, if you’re “born again”, you’re brain dead. There’s no low these God-hating leftist won’t stoop to.


6 posted on 03/21/2012 12:39:09 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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Our tax money at work against US Investigate this grant


7 posted on 03/21/2012 12:41:38 AM PDT by mosesdapoet ("The best way to punish a country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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Hardy-har-har!

(We’ll see if the secular leftists are still laughing when the Day of the Lord arrives.)


8 posted on 03/21/2012 1:03:13 AM PDT by bkopto (Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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Did you know there’s a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists’ Association with chapters all over the country? Once you understand this, you’ll better understand what is deemed news in today’s media. http://www.nlgja.org/


10 posted on 03/21/2012 1:23:17 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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"Older adults who say they've had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds."

This is delicious;

First, an "older adult" generally has the time to think and reflect about his or her life and quite often concludes a percentage of it was not necesarilly conducive to good living, but to living (the) good (life).

We chase dreams which cost money which requires a job or skill which in turn is not always in harmony with good living but needed to accomplish the 'living good'

Empirically, I find within myself the sloughing off of excess mental baggage for the more intimate and meaningful thought patterns of a relationship with God .. sometimes a not so very easy excersize.

Consider Romans, chapter 6.

No, I won't quote it it, nor will I expound on it.

I'm not even going to say any more in this reply.

Consider Romans, chapter 6

11 posted on 03/21/2012 1:48:43 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Modern phrenology at work.


12 posted on 03/21/2012 1:55:17 AM PDT by FairWitness (Everything is easy, once you've done it once)
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Im not surprised.


13 posted on 03/21/2012 2:04:11 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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The authors left out the financial status in their demographics, which is interesting since another study at PLoS ONE indicated that poorer people have more hippcampal atrophy than richer people, also due to stress. The results could easily be skewed if the born-again group were also the generally poorer of all the others.


14 posted on 03/21/2012 2:10:23 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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I'm not adoctor, but I do know that neural pathways can grow with usage. I also know that certain parts of the brain control certain motor functions, or memories or thought processes.

I remember hearing something years back that gays had an enlarged area of the brain, ie thats why they were the way they were.

Whats not to say that this area of the brain for gays or the area mentioned in this article are not areas where certain types of thought patterns are located. The more one dwells on a subject, the stronger ones thoughts get, the more those neural pathways grow, enlarging that area.

The Bible tells us that man has a sin nature, and the more we satisfy that nature, the easier sin becomes for us. It only makes sense that certain areas of our brain responds to certain types of thoughts or actions. As Christians view certain thoughts or actions as Sin, and try to change their behavior, its only natural that certain areas would grow with more usage and other areas atrophy.

16 posted on 03/21/2012 2:13:01 AM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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Whoever paid for this study should demand their funding back. It is either lousy reporting, junk research or both.


18 posted on 03/21/2012 3:42:45 AM PDT by Pat4ever
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Saw this coming decades ago. The potential for abuse is incalculable. However, do I find my born again friends can’t be bothered to reason too vigorously? Sadly, it does seem that way. Why would you need to think about anything, if all the answers are written down?


21 posted on 03/21/2012 4:46:34 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...well, half-right, at least.)
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This is trying to make out believers as something less than human......it’s what all tyrants try todo to justifyntheirmgenocidal plans for a certain group.


22 posted on 03/21/2012 4:48:29 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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It’s all manipulative bull. It has nothing to do with science. It is conducted in the spirit of eugenics - separating out and dehumanizing those the Left wants to kill from the ones they tolerate. They hope it will lead to Christians denying Jesus for fear of being labeled retarded. In the new deathcare rationing system, retarded people won’t fair too well.


25 posted on 03/21/2012 5:01:27 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Straight out of the mouth of Lucifer himself.


26 posted on 03/21/2012 5:25:14 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Does this mean they’re qualified for disability?


27 posted on 03/21/2012 5:29:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Nothing like some good old fashion Nazi propaganda by our resident leftist elitist media in the morning.


29 posted on 03/21/2012 5:42:30 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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All of 1 Corinthians addresses this topic, but I give the heart:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)

40 posted on 03/21/2012 1:30:37 PM PDT by nonsporting
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SOURCE: Duke University, news release, May 19, 2011

Why is this "news" to philly.com a year later?

42 posted on 03/21/2012 1:44:42 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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