This video is stupid. Epigenome will put atheist in to the abyss. Evil exist just by entrophy and heaven and hell is possible by more than 24 dimentions of reality. God dont care who believe in him or not. In atheism, humans are nothing but animals and has no value nor hope after death.
BUAHHAHAHA And why religious people live longer? Cuz brain damage? Buhuahhauahah! This is not a theory! Tat is fact and we've got statistics, which says, that people, who belive in god LIVE LONGER! :)
i used to beleave in god but i just cant get over the thoght that you are damned from birth and need to be slaves of religion and faith doesint mean i dont beleave in life after death for i can astral prject and i dont drink city water for it has florid in it and prevents astral projection but to beleave that you are damned at birth and could go to hell after death is just a way for the system to keep you in there control and pacify you to a point that you are a good patriot and dont quistion
Once again, blindly following a mentor or leader isn't localized to just belief in God, but to almost any belief system. When it all comes down to it this video says nothing of the whether religion is right or not. And for those who aren't ready to believe, just look at the wise sayings and historical accuracy of many events from the bible. These alone show some significance to the Bible.
@TheMikeSideGallery Same goes for Confusianism if thats all you are going off. And wise sayings part is up for debate and historically Matthew and Luke don't even match. Also the Epic of Gilgamesh flood was proven true by science not Noahs ark and also word on the street is that Santa might also not be real but I have yet to confirm that as I am still waiting for him to eat those milk and cookies I set out about 20 years ago.
(Sorry it cut off) I see the christians around me learn of God and simply don't worry about the sciences because they along with myself believe God is in control. I see it as all the more reason to study science and mathematics in order to see what God is like. About the tendency of children to blindly follow their parents or mentor, yes it is true, but I hope that by the time the child has matured they will have formed their own reasons for believing.
The reason for the atrophy of the hypothalamus seems to be the closed mindedness seen in many churches and the lack of mental stimulation, but closed mindedness and being unknowledgeable of the sciences isn't necessary for religion. In fact, closed mindedness isn't only in religion but in nearly any belief system. I believe in God and the crucifixion, but also enjoy mathematics, biology, physics, and love to listen to arguments from both sides. I see the christians around me learn of God and si
How sad that after a little over 2 months, this video only has almost 11k views whereas that stupid "I hate religion but love jesus" video has almost 13 million in 6 days. People are clearly far too emotional. And they wonder why the world is in such a bad state...smh
Are there materials around that suggest how to reverse this specific brain damage? Salvage as much as possible? I only recently woke up, and have good reason to look into this. Thanks.
@smegmasaurus Both. Jehovah's Witness failed prophesy abt when The End will happen started the downslide, starting in '97. 2004 I decided to strengthen my faith with research, getting rid of doubts I had my whole life. Learning what I never wanted to know was The Event. 2005, most horrific nervous breakdown in my life because of that. Survived 2 suicide attempts. Knowing that everyone you've ever known, loved will shun you for being an enemy of God messes up the mind in an xtra-special way.
@727Phoenix Eventually I worked up nerve to admit my certainty of this NOT being The Truth, now I'm an Apostate, 'untouchable' to JWs. Yes my heart was ripped out of my chest, it still hurts but it's worth the freedom.
btw, when I decided to be an Atheist it was only to prevent any more bullshit from taking hold of my mind, that's all. Soon I learned the path wasn't cold & depressing. Atheism=Demolition Services. With the Tower gone, the sun can now shine through. Never been happier!!!
@727Phoenix - I know how you feel. I have been disinherited and most of my family will not speak to me. I ran into my aunt at the grocery store a few weeks ago and she would not even acknowledge my presence. I'm fine with it. I don't want hateful and intolerant people in my life anyway. If you haven't seen it already you should watch "Why I am no longer a Christian" by Evid3nc3. It is here on the tube in a full length video.
God creates you sick and commands you to be well. According to DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), fundamentalist beliefs are a mental disorder. So why is this not known by everyone? Because 75-80% this country are afflicted in some way or another.
I am a atheist and a scientist, and I hate it when people pervert science to attack religion.
The only study cited in this video found: "hippocampal atrophy" for people reporting a "life-changing religious experience." That's very different than"religion". Almost no psychosocial and demographic factors were actually considered in the analysis. I read the study over, and it in absolutely NO way can it be taken as claiming that religion causes brain damage of any kind.
as an aspiring scientist and atheist I would like to add that If you find this study convincing you should check out a podcast called "rationally speaking" (easily found on google) and listen to the discussion entitled "neurobabble."
It seems the poster of this video is not well schooled in neuroscience.
@krystofAnother posting of this video included this link:scientific american DOT com/article.cfm?id=religious-experiences-shrink... By the way, in what area of science do you specialize? What do you suppose the article meant by "life-changing religious experience."? I'm not making a point, just sincerely curious.
@TheMadBeach The article specifies that life changing experiences means people who said, in a survey, that they had had "“A conversion experience, i.e., a specific occasion when you dedicated your life to Jesus.” or "any other religious experience that changed your life?”
I am a cognitive neuroscientist, I study sensory perception.
If there's one thing I can thank my parents for, it's for not claiming to know things they knew they couldn't possibly. Any explanation of belief in an afterlife was always concluded with, "... but there's not like there's anyone we could *ask* about it."
When the impetus is to go find out, sometimes one finds that the reason they're not getting any real answers is because they've been asking the wrong people the wrong questions.
YOU SHOULD NEVER THINK INDEPENDELY BECAUSE HUMANS HAVE NO POWER
YOU MUST ATTACH YOURSELF TO SOMETHING, CREATOR IS A GOOD CHOICE
NO ALL RELIGION ARE THE SAME, SOME TEACH JUST TO LOVE THE CREATOR FOLLOW THE BIBLE (NO NORMAL HUMAN HAS THE MENTAL POWER TO HAVE WROTE THE BIBLE IT HAD COME FROM GOD)
RELIGION LIKE 7TH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH (THE ONLY TRUE CHURCH) IS AS NORMAL AS IT CAN GET, THEY FOLOW AS MUCH THEY KNOW, NOT JUST BECAUSE GOD DESERVE BUT BECAUSE WE NEED HELP FROM ABOVE
Raised Christian, I remember the fear of sin, hell and eternal punishment. By age 30, I had freed myself from belief in the supernatural by following my instincts and my doubts about religion and educating myself about the origins and contradictions of religion. Putting belief in the supernatural in a child's head causes trauma and low self-esteem; and it makes the mind malleable to a Pandora’s Box of harmful influences, e.g. cults, conspiracy theories. Reality is much healthier!
please someone answer this, if what the man is saying in this video is true, and i think it sounds just right then surely school etc is just as bad for you. also if the same 1 person did the same things over a week every week the same thing would happen to them I.E. school! I don't like the idea that its possible all the things people are telling me to do is destroying my potential i am only 15!!!!. And i have things i wanna do but seemed to be limited by this bullshit society !
"Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was observed for participants reporting a life-changing religious experience. " - what about those that had life-changing experiences without religion but along the same lines? Like you used to hate the world and afterwards start to love it or something? Is it new age religious experiences such as with pantheism? Organized religions? ... it is not fair to make this video... with just this evidence it is dogma.
As an atheist I fought against religion. Today as a minister, I still fight the battle against religion. No religion follows scripture, but their own dogma.
I looked at the study's data and found that there wasn't a significant correlation for most of the variables with the curious exception of "life-changing religious experiences." Also, this study was looking at the size of the hippocampus. A smaller hippocampus doesn't necessarily mean there's brain damage. "Do not believe anything simply because you have heard it ...But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason ... then accept it and live up to it.” - Buddha
I myself am agnostic, i really don´t know what ´s happening after the physical death,and i´s impossible to discouver. The belivers are free to believe, when it makes their life-concept and help them mentally in some way- but the extremety´s always fatal and never good.. a kid shouldn´t be forced into there!. Convictions and directions in our life we´re getting much later.. they r results of our information-values, experiances and resulting out of it logic.. It is a worth to share video, TY
...To everyone viewing the comments. Below is the original comment "controlsfr34k" reply to. If this username replies to it again, this is more confirmation that this is yet one of several troll/comment spy accounts to cause confusion & distract you from the statement produce...And thanks Wakeupfromreligion for the upload.
What's interesting is that people think just because they don't go to church or are not Christian, they don't practice religion. Think again, the very foundation of the codes/statues of governments is the Bible. Most people are coerce to obey/oblige to these codes of G.O.D.* Just take the time to compare the Codes of Canon Law with U.S. Codes, the State Codes, or the Municipal Codes...You'll find out that you are in Church 24/7 & didn't realize it.
might be interesting to note that according to God's perspective in the New Testament Pure Religion is taking care of Orphans & Widows & trying to stay out of the corruption of the world. The rest is man's conjecture. The danger of atheistic argument by some (as may be the case here looking @ur 3 videos) is creating mirror image antithesis of religion that would equally cut off partial brain function. Evangelising science (still in absolute infancy) is just as unbalanced as religious fanaticism
What's interesting is that people think just because they don't go to church or are not Christian, they don't practice religion. Think again, the very foundation of the codes/statues of governments is the Bible. Most people are coerce to obey/oblige to these codes of G.O.D.* Just take the time to compare the Codes of Canon Law with U.S. Codes, the State Codes, or the Municipal Codes...You'll find out that you are in Church 24/7 & didn't realize it.
@wordsthatmanifest "The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian religion." -John Adams, Treaty of Tripoli
Nice try. The founders disagree. There is no reason we as humans can't take and use the good parts of stone age fairy tale law and discard the rest, which, it so happens, describes what our secular government has done. We're still working to get rid of barbaric practices like murder as punishment. Following a code of conduct is not synonymous with being religious.
@controlsfr34k As the definition of sin goes, you have miss the mark. Does the U.S. government not observed Christ Mass with its citizens, as is all the other Christian Holy Days? Does business in every U.S. department shuts down on Sun(of God)Day? Does the 13 Supreme court judges not don the robes of Catholic priest? Are you not a troll? If not, who are you & what is your intent?
@wordsthatmanifest I didn't define sin, nor did I even mention that fictional construct of religion. Your opening retort is thus completely nonsensical, as is the rest of your poorly conjugated drivel.
@0rioni there are so many many religions and tolerance is important, but also important to keep things in perspective ... rather than say all are bad or promote one over another (or condemn all), i think it is important to recognize the positive as well as the negative influences of each one independently ... almost as if each were a person ... that said - fuck fearmongering superstitious bullshitters
"Greater hippocampal atrophy was also found to be longitudinally associated with reported life-changing religious experiences...." "Such experiences have the capacity to produce doubts regarding previously unquestioned convictions, potentially inducing cumulative stress even if the experience was subjectively positive...." ..."may contribute to conditions that are deleterious for hippocampal volume." - Wouldn't that happen to atheists also?
Leo Tolstoy, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Penn, John F. Kennedy, John Paul II, George MacDonald, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard
Here's a small list of people whose brains were damaged by Christianity, just of the top of my head; Sir Isaac Newton, J.S. Bach, Martin Luther King, Jr, Thomas Merton, C.S.Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Michaelangelo,
I think your title is a little misleading. Your basically saying Christianity is causing brain damage. A lot of so called religions like the original Islam and Buddhism don't share the foundation of Christianity on issues such as hell and Jesus. With that being said, I agree with your video.
This is what I call spiritual abuse. It is abuse of the human spirit and causes damage to the mind, heart, body and soul. There are numerous studies that show how these beliefs also are directly linked to physical child abuse. And as many of us are discovering these archaic beliefs cause emotional trauma and soul trama as well. In my own life I have found that real and genuine spirituality completely outside of dogma has the ability to heal the trauma caused by religion.
You obviously don't have a clue what you're talkin' 'bout, if you want to know the truth. In reality you've got a problem with Christianity, and you're understanding of God. The Deity that I know as Allah. The Divine Reality that transcends both space & time, the Creator of the seen & unseen, that nothing can compare to.
What we are, are finite beings, born to die, and that's no lie, regardless what you believe. I'm not here to save your butt, but I'm here to tell you the truth!
When we became consciously aware of our surroundings and life, we also became aware of death, and how short our lives really are. This reality, and or losing a loved one, can be so unbearable at times, that it causes one to be unable to function properly. So we evolved this god part of the brain during our evolution as a species. So it's perfectly normal for one to have religious beliefs.
Although I agree with fear affecting the brain. You're over looking the fact that we developed a belief in god, souls, an afterlife, continuation, being connected to some larger picture, a whole, etc We evolved a physical area in the frontal lobes, dubbed the "god part of the brain" That gives one this sense of a continuation after death, or a sense of god. part of the one/whole. It enables us to be able to cope with death.
But not everything in this world is logical to understand, emotions are not logical but still they are important to us. The hippocampus deals with memory so I don't exactly see how religious experience has anything to do with neuronal atrophy, but I'll read the article to see if the have bias subjects or not.
Belief is the end of wonder, creativity and appreciation. Belief blocks and destroys the very human need to explore and discover. How can one explore the endless mysteries of existence with a head full of religious story? I feel so badly for children who's development is arrested by the outrage of religious indoctrination.
Parents who force religion down there children's throats should expect that it might very well become one of the things that their kids might eventually rebel against. Like vegetables, they should be exposed to it, various forms of it even, but in the long run they should allowed free will to choose for themselves, and also be loved unconditionally regardless of their choice. That's what the Bible has taught me.
no shock and surprise there, religion can and does cause brain damage, just look at pat robertson, jerry falwell, and the current group of gop presidential candidates
Wow, nice response. I totally agree (if I was God). I wonder if some of that hell stuff is man-made. But then, not doing what is prescribed (morally) in the Bible usually does land one in some sort of hell like jail, loneliness, poverty etc. Re: God/Son being the same, I think Jesus is a separate entity (as it says He sits at the right hand of His Father in Heaven, etc.), but the 'same' in that they are both God(s) and Father/Son, of the same mind (regarding humans). You make perfect sense!
I love this video! I too was programmed as a child. There is a huge difference between religion and spirituality. While I no longer subscribe to any particular religion, I do believe and have experienced what some call God. It is meant to be like any other relationship...personal! If God is a higher being than surely God's ideas and feelings must be way above what we as humans call love and understanding.
Great work! Can I use this video? It fits perfectly with some classes I am teaching. Jon
@kind1st If there was no Yin and Yang to life, then life would be so bland. Accept God's FREE gift of eternal life by believing that his son died, being thankful, grateful, loving one another, accepting each other, praying for each other and our enemies, hoping, caring, sharing, singing, etc. (The words of Jesus are the words of God, don't mix the old testament/covenant with the new covenant/promise/way that Jesus brought. Jesus is my savior, I love every thing he ever said in the Bible. Love.
Thankyou I am an Atheist, have a science background and never really made the link between the irrational beliefs/blind faith of people and the self-preservation instinct.
The study says the opposite to what you claim. Protestants, Catholics, born again Christians all experienced significantly less brain atrophy than those of "no religion".
Even the abstract of the paper explicitly states that those of "no relligion" experience higher rates of brain decay than protestants.
@nopaniers No, the abstract says, "Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was also observed from baseline to final assessment among born-again Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation, compared with Protestants not identifying as born-again."
Apparently the ones with the healthiest hippocampuses are Lutherans and Calvinists.
@mrlandby Right. According to the abstract, non-believers had "significantly higher rates of brain atrophy" than mainstream protestants (who were the baseline for the study). The survey data showed those of "no religion" experienced more brain atrophy than almost every other religious grouping surveyed. This included protestants (born again or not), Catholics, and those of "other" religion.
This appears to be quite an amazing video but i'll have to keep watching it. It's difficult to understand everything being said because of the music. Why do people find it necessary to play loud, dramatic music in all videos? Turn it down so we can hear you please :-)
Great video but i have to point out the fact that no one can "tghink freelly"? Nuroscience has proved thuis to an extent, we are victims of culture the enviroment shapes up from child hood including bilogical enviroment
I feel lucky to have managed to break free from the cesspool of religion at the age of 15. I fear i may have been a zombie to religion if i had waited any longer.
@BarryGormley2010 Some day, you'll be old, and there will be young people (like yourself, I'm guessing) who will hate you for no better reason than the one you have stated above. Your comment reveals an immature prejudice that makes your feelings irrelevant.
I am rather offended by many of the comments about older people in this thread.
Although I began silently asking some fundamental questions about religion very early in life, I did not fully disavow it until I was almost 50 years old.
In fact, I struggled very hard to hang on to my faith right up until the time that religious fanatics forced me to look long and hard at everything I had previously believed and at the origins of the By-bull and churches. After that there was no turning back!
It's not religion itself that cuases brain damage, it's dogmatism, literalism, and the "divine authority" that religious people think they gain. However religious practices, which can induce (but do not proove the literal existance of) god experiences, actually exist and are benefitial to your health. Quite the opposite. Meditation, Prayer, and other symbolic acts can be psychologically beneficial.
Have to agree with LuciusStone94 here. It's not very logical to claim religion causes brain damage when it actually depends on the specific religion and how it is taught to you that causes it (I still would like a few more scientific papers on this subject too for the sake of fairness.) I have a feeling you were raised in a rather extreme religious background, I myself was raised Roman Catholic (Buddhist now) but was never scared into believing in hell or anything like that.
Cont. In fact my experience of Christianity was a good and kind one (I changed to Buddhism because it suited me more.) I think it's safe to state that any sort of upbringing that has some sort of deep extremism in it will be damaging however since religion is more open to be taken in an extremist view that is where we see most of the detrimental effects.
Buddhism is a religion and it doesn't cause brain damage. It teaches liberation and has done great good. Christianity is not the entirety of religion. Logical my ass.
I want to look into the evidence that religion damages the hardware of our brain. I am certain that religion damages our reasoning processes. Please look at beliverinterviews where I document the irrationality of believers.
Religions don't save you and that's why religious people fight against each other. Read the Bible in Acts 4:12 and John 14: 6 and it will let you know who really saves. Blessings
....and doesn't contradict ITSELF, even though passages are often taken out context and read in light of the reader's experience only and not on the context of the Bible as a whole and the people who wrote and the truths proclaimed within it.
This video is actually really good at showing the results of peoples' sin. When groups corrupt the truth and twist it into a form of manipulation, then that IS evil. But teaching the whole Bible the way it was meant to be taught is beautiful.
It's pretty obvious that this guy was one of the very kids he was talking about while he was growing up. And yet he's stating that kids who grow up under abusive religious systems such as the ones he deaconess turn out brain damaged. Using that logic, who's to say he didn't leave that system with a slightly shrunken hippocampus himself?
True Christianity doesn't rely on fear tactics like the author describes. It relies solely on the Bible, ie the inspired word of God, which defends itself...
@jakesaysrad - I stopped believing by the time I was 13, and though I was forced to go for another 4 years it was under duress and had no effect. If you look at the study (the link is in the info bar) you will see that brain atrophy was found in subjects in their late 50s. Religion is like cigarettes. If you quit while you're young you can heal. If you keep at it till you are retired, the damage is irreparable. Though I can't reach the older generations I can reach young people. That's my goal.
@WakeupfromReligion It's ironic because I grew up in Church and I was an Atheist until I was 13. Then Christ came into my heart and changed my life around. I'm a Christian, and you know what, I agree with you, religion does probably damage you. But like the guy above said, true Christianity is not about fear tactics, it's about love and Christ filling the void in our lives that we can't fill. True Christianity is not a religion - it's a relationship with Jesus Christ.
@ownage2nubs Also, here are some solid scientific statistics - people of faith and church-goers have lower death rates from many chronic diseases and longer life expectancies than Atheists or non Church-goers. They live more happier, more fulfilled, AND more healthier lives. And that's not me or other Christians just saying that - those are solid statistics.
Look, I get it. The universe does not make sense to us. It's really huge and we don't know why it's here. We actually don't know why for a lot of things. As intelligent and rational creatures, this is an affront to our consciousness. We consistently seek answers, why this, why that.
But this does not mean God put us here. Who put God there? Why does God exist?
The human experience is discovery. Religion is ignorance.
@Icollishaw I love how Atheists always claim that there is no God because we have no evidence of God. If you were God and your plan was to see which of your 'children' had faith in you (after reading your book and comparing it with there experiences/feelings), would you let a little tidbit of evidence slip that you existed. That would make the whole thing pointless. Of course God is not going to let us have proof of his existence! Why would he and why should he? Jesus is not religion. He is God
@Icollishaw Haha, one of the reasons why I became a Christian was because it was scientifically proved to me. The arguments for not believing in God in general are irrational, lacking in proper proof and they are devoid of logic. No-one put God there, He was already there. As for why He exists, no-one knows. I know that you're going to reply by saying 'but that doesn't make sense' when actually, it makes perfect sense. If you want me to explain the science to you then inbox me.
@WakeupfromReligion Perhaps they are not hypotrophied at all, perhaps non-believers Hippocampi are hypertrophied because they over-think things, thus forming an over abundance of memories. Perhaps also the spatial/navigation portions of believer appear hypotrophied because they don't need to always think about where they are and/or where they are going - because they already know where they are (on God's green earth) and where they are going (to Heaven) Jesus preached love! He IS God.He IS Love.
@WakeupfromReligion and in other studies not in regards to religion but just aging in general the brain does not atrophy. So the idea that older people can't think clearly or lose their memory is a false general statement. The opposite is true as they can form connections more quickly. It was a study in regards to the early retirement age of pilots. They determined they in fact had better response times than younger pilots.
@jakesaysrad I guess I have to read your words carefully. I grew up Southern Baptist and there were a LOT of fear tactics used. Who can say what True Christianity is? Easy going Methodists? Old Testament 7th day adventists? Hell fire and brimstone southern Baptist?
@iulslion Focus on the words/teachings of Jesus. He stated very clearly that he was here to teach us the 'new' way. God's new pan for salvation. Eternal life is at stake. The old testament was made null and void when Jesus died for all of our sins. We just have to say thanks. Just imagine that everything Jesus ever said was true, that he did die for us. What if it was true. Wouldn't that make Jesus such a nice God! A nice man. That he died for others. He made it simple, yet we want it OUR way.
@jakesaysrad inspired word of god... Houston we've got a problem. Also when I read the bible I have noticed many stories to inspire fear and last I checked the bible was written by people. Unless you're one of those people who think god literally breathed on the pages... oh yeah I've heard someone say those exact words and mean it literally.
@TubeNerd00 I love how Atheists always claim that there is no God because we have no evidence of God. If you were God and your plan was to see which of your 'children' had faith in you (after reading your book and comparing it with there experiences/feelings), would you let a little tidbit of evidence slip that you existed. That would make the whole thing pointless. Of course God is not going to let us have proof of his existence! Why would he and why should he? Something came from nothing!?
@gregorypeterfrancis Let me get you comments right.So you say Jesus is God's son and he is a God himself? You mixed me up, who is the real God and how many Gods are there? If I was God and as you said it I planed to see which of my 'children' had faith in me, I would simply let the free will take its course and would surely not burned my children in the fires of hell and surely I would not punish those who didn't have faith in me, cause I must have been the one to cause the disbelief.
Not true of all branches of the Christian Faith, only the Hellfire & Damnation sects that dwell too much on Revelation. I'm a Methodist & I go to Church because I want to but because I am scared not too. For me, God is a loving Father who wants his children to do well. I've never once in my life heard a Hellfire & Damnation sermon & have no interest in hearing one. You raise some good points, instilling fear in a young child is horrible. I help with Vacation Bible School. We don't do that!
The video is good but the title is misleading. Religion does not cause brain damage. But rather, a specific, fundamentalist form of religion does. Religion can be a very abstract sense of belief, and sometimes it can be much more open minded.
give the original person who created this video credit.
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galerouth 14 hours ago
This video is stupid. Epigenome will put atheist in to the abyss. Evil exist just by entrophy and heaven and hell is possible by more than 24 dimentions of reality. God dont care who believe in him or not. In atheism, humans are nothing but animals and has no value nor hope after death.
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myyz400 1 day ago
RELIGITARDATION IS A SERIOUS DISEASE
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Heinoisurehero 1 week ago
A lot of the people commenting on your video are just further proving your assertions
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inconsp1cuous1515 2 weeks ago
BUAHHAHAHA And why religious people live longer? Cuz brain damage? Buhuahhauahah! This is not a theory! Tat is fact and we've got statistics, which says, that people, who belive in god LIVE LONGER! :)
CnNbS4KANEHBOSM 2 weeks ago
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yawaka0999 3 weeks ago
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yawaka0999 3 weeks ago
big brother always breathing down your neck
montanaman20 3 weeks ago
i used to beleave in god but i just cant get over the thoght that you are damned from birth and need to be slaves of religion and faith doesint mean i dont beleave in life after death for i can astral prject and i dont drink city water for it has florid in it and prevents astral projection but to beleave that you are damned at birth and could go to hell after death is just a way for the system to keep you in there control and pacify you to a point that you are a good patriot and dont quistion
montanaman20 3 weeks ago
I don't think there's enough evidence to say that religion causes brain damage. But it does cause many of the outward symptoms.
Logic is presented as the brain's primary function in this video.
But the preservation of the survival instinct would be more accurate.
A certain kind of thinking allows for a "logic" where reality can be suspended by the carrot of Heaven and the stick of Hell.
The "brain damage" is reversible, as evidenced by the maker of this video and many other ex-Christians.
jazzx251 3 weeks ago
I'm gonna share the fuck out of it on social platforms.
StojanSR 1 month ago
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TheMarwish 1 month ago
Once again, blindly following a mentor or leader isn't localized to just belief in God, but to almost any belief system. When it all comes down to it this video says nothing of the whether religion is right or not. And for those who aren't ready to believe, just look at the wise sayings and historical accuracy of many events from the bible. These alone show some significance to the Bible.
TheMikeSideGallery 1 month ago
@TheMikeSideGallery Same goes for Confusianism if thats all you are going off. And wise sayings part is up for debate and historically Matthew and Luke don't even match. Also the Epic of Gilgamesh flood was proven true by science not Noahs ark and also word on the street is that Santa might also not be real but I have yet to confirm that as I am still waiting for him to eat those milk and cookies I set out about 20 years ago.
warangel87 3 weeks ago
@TheMikeSideGalery I am soooo sooo sorry about that really I am ...I meant to spell that Confucianism thats a c instead of an s
warangel87 3 weeks ago
(Sorry it cut off) I see the christians around me learn of God and simply don't worry about the sciences because they along with myself believe God is in control. I see it as all the more reason to study science and mathematics in order to see what God is like. About the tendency of children to blindly follow their parents or mentor, yes it is true, but I hope that by the time the child has matured they will have formed their own reasons for believing.
TheMikeSideGallery 1 month ago
The reason for the atrophy of the hypothalamus seems to be the closed mindedness seen in many churches and the lack of mental stimulation, but closed mindedness and being unknowledgeable of the sciences isn't necessary for religion. In fact, closed mindedness isn't only in religion but in nearly any belief system. I believe in God and the crucifixion, but also enjoy mathematics, biology, physics, and love to listen to arguments from both sides. I see the christians around me learn of God and si
TheMikeSideGallery 1 month ago
How sad that after a little over 2 months, this video only has almost 11k views whereas that stupid "I hate religion but love jesus" video has almost 13 million in 6 days. People are clearly far too emotional. And they wonder why the world is in such a bad state...smh
MalikDon777 1 month ago
Loll
MrNDUDE16 1 month ago
Song from 2:40 and on?
SkandiMOOSE 1 month ago
@SkandiMOOSE In the House In a Heartbeat by John Murphy
kevinmm20 3 weeks ago
I wonder what Peter Berger would say... does the avoidance of anomy found in religion make up for the brain damage? lol
bignbeautiful18 1 month ago
Of course it causes brain damage, religion is a disease.
liOVERLOADil 1 month ago 14
@liOVERLOADil thats right
mik152flight 1 month ago
I can remember not being allowed to watch the Smurfs...
pistolpackintim 1 month ago
"that it's simple inexcusable"
boldman01 1 month ago
great videos. could you share the title of the background sound? :=) thank you
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@Starsapphires1 Are you serious? Would "God" want you to call other people stupid? Where is the evidence of God?
Reisohh 1 month ago
Are there materials around that suggest how to reverse this specific brain damage? Salvage as much as possible? I only recently woke up, and have good reason to look into this. Thanks.
727Phoenix 1 month ago
@727Phoenix Glad to hear it. Was there a specific event that caused you to lose faith or was it a gradual process?
smegmasaurus 1 month ago
@smegmasaurus Both. Jehovah's Witness failed prophesy abt when The End will happen started the downslide, starting in '97. 2004 I decided to strengthen my faith with research, getting rid of doubts I had my whole life. Learning what I never wanted to know was The Event. 2005, most horrific nervous breakdown in my life because of that. Survived 2 suicide attempts. Knowing that everyone you've ever known, loved will shun you for being an enemy of God messes up the mind in an xtra-special way.
727Phoenix 1 month ago
@727Phoenix Eventually I worked up nerve to admit my certainty of this NOT being The Truth, now I'm an Apostate, 'untouchable' to JWs. Yes my heart was ripped out of my chest, it still hurts but it's worth the freedom.
btw, when I decided to be an Atheist it was only to prevent any more bullshit from taking hold of my mind, that's all. Soon I learned the path wasn't cold & depressing. Atheism=Demolition Services. With the Tower gone, the sun can now shine through. Never been happier!!!
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smegmasaurus 1 month ago
@727Phoenix - I know how you feel. I have been disinherited and most of my family will not speak to me. I ran into my aunt at the grocery store a few weeks ago and she would not even acknowledge my presence. I'm fine with it. I don't want hateful and intolerant people in my life anyway. If you haven't seen it already you should watch "Why I am no longer a Christian" by Evid3nc3. It is here on the tube in a full length video.
smegmasaurus 1 month ago
God creates you sick and commands you to be well. According to DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), fundamentalist beliefs are a mental disorder. So why is this not known by everyone? Because 75-80% this country are afflicted in some way or another.
saburius 1 month ago 16
Good video, but the music is too loud-- very distracting.
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Starsapphires1 1 month ago
would have been much better without the background music
kirch2009 1 month ago
Religion poisons everything -- Christopher Hitchens
mykelb 2 months ago
I am a atheist and a scientist, and I hate it when people pervert science to attack religion.
The only study cited in this video found: "hippocampal atrophy" for people reporting a "life-changing religious experience." That's very different than"religion". Almost no psychosocial and demographic factors were actually considered in the analysis. I read the study over, and it in absolutely NO way can it be taken as claiming that religion causes brain damage of any kind.
krystof 2 months ago 2
@krystof is correct
as an aspiring scientist and atheist I would like to add that If you find this study convincing you should check out a podcast called "rationally speaking" (easily found on google) and listen to the discussion entitled "neurobabble."
It seems the poster of this video is not well schooled in neuroscience.
PaulSyp 1 month ago
@krystofAnother posting of this video included this link:scientific american DOT com/article.cfm?id=religious-experiences-shrink... By the way, in what area of science do you specialize? What do you suppose the article meant by "life-changing religious experience."? I'm not making a point, just sincerely curious.
TheMadBeach 1 month ago
@TheMadBeach The article specifies that life changing experiences means people who said, in a survey, that they had had "“A conversion experience, i.e., a specific occasion when you dedicated your life to Jesus.” or "any other religious experience that changed your life?”
I am a cognitive neuroscientist, I study sensory perception.
krystof 1 month ago
If there's one thing I can thank my parents for, it's for not claiming to know things they knew they couldn't possibly. Any explanation of belief in an afterlife was always concluded with, "... but there's not like there's anyone we could *ask* about it."
When the impetus is to go find out, sometimes one finds that the reason they're not getting any real answers is because they've been asking the wrong people the wrong questions.
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YOU SHOULD NEVER THINK INDEPENDELY BECAUSE HUMANS HAVE NO POWER
YOU MUST ATTACH YOURSELF TO SOMETHING, CREATOR IS A GOOD CHOICE
NO ALL RELIGION ARE THE SAME, SOME TEACH JUST TO LOVE THE CREATOR FOLLOW THE BIBLE (NO NORMAL HUMAN HAS THE MENTAL POWER TO HAVE WROTE THE BIBLE IT HAD COME FROM GOD)
RELIGION LIKE 7TH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH (THE ONLY TRUE CHURCH) IS AS NORMAL AS IT CAN GET, THEY FOLOW AS MUCH THEY KNOW, NOT JUST BECAUSE GOD DESERVE BUT BECAUSE WE NEED HELP FROM ABOVE
THEHELENOHENZO 2 months ago
Raised Christian, I remember the fear of sin, hell and eternal punishment. By age 30, I had freed myself from belief in the supernatural by following my instincts and my doubts about religion and educating myself about the origins and contradictions of religion. Putting belief in the supernatural in a child's head causes trauma and low self-esteem; and it makes the mind malleable to a Pandora’s Box of harmful influences, e.g. cults, conspiracy theories. Reality is much healthier!
lc237 2 months ago
the title is misleading, it should be ... "Why Christianity causes brain damage" ... thank you .
BlueMonstter 2 months ago
@BlueMonstter I think the title is accurate. Any religion will do this to people. Thank you.
GinoGrazianoMonavie 2 months ago
Mind Control...
flidhais65 2 months ago
good choice of soundtrack for this clip...sounds like the soundtrack from 28 days later.lol
MrsPredNZ 2 months ago
You are a smart man.
yoitstess 2 months ago
Wow, this never occurred to me before.Christianity and it's alike group are absolutely insidious.
MelioraVoros 2 months ago
Science rules!!!!
Thinkdeep420 2 months ago
please someone answer this, if what the man is saying in this video is true, and i think it sounds just right then surely school etc is just as bad for you. also if the same 1 person did the same things over a week every week the same thing would happen to them I.E. school! I don't like the idea that its possible all the things people are telling me to do is destroying my potential i am only 15!!!!. And i have things i wanna do but seemed to be limited by this bullshit society !
WAOgilvy 2 months ago
"Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was observed for participants reporting a life-changing religious experience. " - what about those that had life-changing experiences without religion but along the same lines? Like you used to hate the world and afterwards start to love it or something? Is it new age religious experiences such as with pantheism? Organized religions? ... it is not fair to make this video... with just this evidence it is dogma.
chrisdryer 2 months ago
As an atheist I fought against religion. Today as a minister, I still fight the battle against religion. No religion follows scripture, but their own dogma.
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I looked at the study's data and found that there wasn't a significant correlation for most of the variables with the curious exception of "life-changing religious experiences." Also, this study was looking at the size of the hippocampus. A smaller hippocampus doesn't necessarily mean there's brain damage. "Do not believe anything simply because you have heard it ...But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason ... then accept it and live up to it.” - Buddha
FelizFool 2 months ago
I myself am agnostic, i really don´t know what ´s happening after the physical death,and i´s impossible to discouver. The belivers are free to believe, when it makes their life-concept and help them mentally in some way- but the extremety´s always fatal and never good.. a kid shouldn´t be forced into there!. Convictions and directions in our life we´re getting much later.. they r results of our information-values, experiances and resulting out of it logic.. It is a worth to share video, TY
MsReds75 2 months ago
...To everyone viewing the comments. Below is the original comment "controlsfr34k" reply to. If this username replies to it again, this is more confirmation that this is yet one of several troll/comment spy accounts to cause confusion & distract you from the statement produce...And thanks Wakeupfromreligion for the upload.
wordsthatmanifest 2 months ago
What's interesting is that people think just because they don't go to church or are not Christian, they don't practice religion. Think again, the very foundation of the codes/statues of governments is the Bible. Most people are coerce to obey/oblige to these codes of G.O.D.* Just take the time to compare the Codes of Canon Law with U.S. Codes, the State Codes, or the Municipal Codes...You'll find out that you are in Church 24/7 & didn't realize it.
*Government Ordinance/Ordnance Department
wordsthatmanifest 2 months ago
All the "social conditioning" that has been and is causes "brain damage".
MrKingAnthony2007 2 months ago
Why do you half whisper in all your videos? I like a lot of your content, but you sound sooooo smug.
somaticcinema 2 months ago
might be interesting to note that according to God's perspective in the New Testament Pure Religion is taking care of Orphans & Widows & trying to stay out of the corruption of the world. The rest is man's conjecture. The danger of atheistic argument by some (as may be the case here looking @ur 3 videos) is creating mirror image antithesis of religion that would equally cut off partial brain function. Evangelising science (still in absolute infancy) is just as unbalanced as religious fanaticism
HeLpLOstGOdAny1 2 months ago
What's interesting is that people think just because they don't go to church or are not Christian, they don't practice religion. Think again, the very foundation of the codes/statues of governments is the Bible. Most people are coerce to obey/oblige to these codes of G.O.D.* Just take the time to compare the Codes of Canon Law with U.S. Codes, the State Codes, or the Municipal Codes...You'll find out that you are in Church 24/7 & didn't realize it.
*Government Ordinance/Ordnance Department
wordsthatmanifest 2 months ago
@wordsthatmanifest very good point - the whole world view has to change with each individual from the inside out
HeLpLOstGOdAny1 2 months ago
@wordsthatmanifest "The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian religion." -John Adams, Treaty of Tripoli
Nice try. The founders disagree. There is no reason we as humans can't take and use the good parts of stone age fairy tale law and discard the rest, which, it so happens, describes what our secular government has done. We're still working to get rid of barbaric practices like murder as punishment. Following a code of conduct is not synonymous with being religious.
controlsfr34k 2 months ago
@controlsfr34k As the definition of sin goes, you have miss the mark. Does the U.S. government not observed Christ Mass with its citizens, as is all the other Christian Holy Days? Does business in every U.S. department shuts down on Sun(of God)Day? Does the 13 Supreme court judges not don the robes of Catholic priest? Are you not a troll? If not, who are you & what is your intent?
wordsthatmanifest 2 months ago
@wordsthatmanifest I didn't define sin, nor did I even mention that fictional construct of religion. Your opening retort is thus completely nonsensical, as is the rest of your poorly conjugated drivel.
controlsfr34k 2 months ago
@controlsfr34k Hahaha. point taken. Bye Bye troll.
wordsthatmanifest 2 months ago
what you probably really meant was, "christianity cause brain damage" ... not all religions follow the same formula of "born into sin" ...
zazunzas 2 months ago
@zazunzas
Islam says the same thing too - and injects the fear that if you submit you go to hell. I don't know about budhaism.
0rioni 2 months ago
@0rioni there are so many many religions and tolerance is important, but also important to keep things in perspective ... rather than say all are bad or promote one over another (or condemn all), i think it is important to recognize the positive as well as the negative influences of each one independently ... almost as if each were a person ... that said - fuck fearmongering superstitious bullshitters
zazunzas 2 months ago
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The article actually says -
"Greater hippocampal atrophy was also found to be longitudinally associated with reported life-changing religious experiences...." "Such experiences have the capacity to produce doubts regarding previously unquestioned convictions, potentially inducing cumulative stress even if the experience was subjectively positive...." ..."may contribute to conditions that are deleterious for hippocampal volume." - Wouldn't that happen to atheists also?
chrisdryer 2 months ago
Leo Tolstoy, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Penn, John F. Kennedy, John Paul II, George MacDonald, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard
pgvickers70 2 months ago
Here's a small list of people whose brains were damaged by Christianity, just of the top of my head; Sir Isaac Newton, J.S. Bach, Martin Luther King, Jr, Thomas Merton, C.S.Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Michaelangelo,
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DuffstaMusic 2 months ago
I think your title is a little misleading. Your basically saying Christianity is causing brain damage. A lot of so called religions like the original Islam and Buddhism don't share the foundation of Christianity on issues such as hell and Jesus. With that being said, I agree with your video.
Youthknowledge 2 months ago
from 2:48 and on what is the music score?
blackson1977 2 months ago
This is what I call spiritual abuse. It is abuse of the human spirit and causes damage to the mind, heart, body and soul. There are numerous studies that show how these beliefs also are directly linked to physical child abuse. And as many of us are discovering these archaic beliefs cause emotional trauma and soul trama as well. In my own life I have found that real and genuine spirituality completely outside of dogma has the ability to heal the trauma caused by religion.
victoriamreynolds 2 months ago 20
You obviously don't have a clue what you're talkin' 'bout, if you want to know the truth. In reality you've got a problem with Christianity, and you're understanding of God. The Deity that I know as Allah. The Divine Reality that transcends both space & time, the Creator of the seen & unseen, that nothing can compare to.
What we are, are finite beings, born to die, and that's no lie, regardless what you believe. I'm not here to save your butt, but I'm here to tell you the truth!
virtuallyjesuschrist 2 months ago
Break the spell of religion!!! MalachiYorkBooks dot c o m
antman909 2 months ago
When we became consciously aware of our surroundings and life, we also became aware of death, and how short our lives really are. This reality, and or losing a loved one, can be so unbearable at times, that it causes one to be unable to function properly. So we evolved this god part of the brain during our evolution as a species. So it's perfectly normal for one to have religious beliefs.
DecentralizedByGuilt 2 months ago
Although I agree with fear affecting the brain. You're over looking the fact that we developed a belief in god, souls, an afterlife, continuation, being connected to some larger picture, a whole, etc We evolved a physical area in the frontal lobes, dubbed the "god part of the brain" That gives one this sense of a continuation after death, or a sense of god. part of the one/whole. It enables us to be able to cope with death.
DecentralizedByGuilt 2 months ago
But not everything in this world is logical to understand, emotions are not logical but still they are important to us. The hippocampus deals with memory so I don't exactly see how religious experience has anything to do with neuronal atrophy, but I'll read the article to see if the have bias subjects or not.
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It is so obvious that it nearly escapes notice.
Belief is the end of wonder, creativity and appreciation. Belief blocks and destroys the very human need to explore and discover. How can one explore the endless mysteries of existence with a head full of religious story? I feel so badly for children who's development is arrested by the outrage of religious indoctrination.
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ghostbow 2 months ago
Parents who force religion down there children's throats should expect that it might very well become one of the things that their kids might eventually rebel against. Like vegetables, they should be exposed to it, various forms of it even, but in the long run they should allowed free will to choose for themselves, and also be loved unconditionally regardless of their choice. That's what the Bible has taught me.
kimtonearts 2 months ago
So Arabs are all brain damage?
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@glennwih let's play the mirror game... so christians are ALL brain damaged.
myopensecret 2 months ago
@myopensecret Probably. I am Agnostic.
glennwih 2 months ago
no shock and surprise there, religion can and does cause brain damage, just look at pat robertson, jerry falwell, and the current group of gop presidential candidates
tsBobbieJo 2 months ago
Wow, nice response. I totally agree (if I was God). I wonder if some of that hell stuff is man-made. But then, not doing what is prescribed (morally) in the Bible usually does land one in some sort of hell like jail, loneliness, poverty etc. Re: God/Son being the same, I think Jesus is a separate entity (as it says He sits at the right hand of His Father in Heaven, etc.), but the 'same' in that they are both God(s) and Father/Son, of the same mind (regarding humans). You make perfect sense!
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
I love this video! I too was programmed as a child. There is a huge difference between religion and spirituality. While I no longer subscribe to any particular religion, I do believe and have experienced what some call God. It is meant to be like any other relationship...personal! If God is a higher being than surely God's ideas and feelings must be way above what we as humans call love and understanding.
Great work! Can I use this video? It fits perfectly with some classes I am teaching. Jon
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gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
The passing on of Cognitive Dissonance is one of the most prevalent forms of Child Abuse on the planet.
kind1st 2 months ago
@kind1st If there was no Yin and Yang to life, then life would be so bland. Accept God's FREE gift of eternal life by believing that his son died, being thankful, grateful, loving one another, accepting each other, praying for each other and our enemies, hoping, caring, sharing, singing, etc. (The words of Jesus are the words of God, don't mix the old testament/covenant with the new covenant/promise/way that Jesus brought. Jesus is my savior, I love every thing he ever said in the Bible. Love.
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
anyone know the name of the song that plays at the beginning?
with the choir?
its great
youngice6004 2 months ago
The most true video on the universe.
I had some dumb deep Christian morons harassing me and acting soo dumb and childish.
They say they will use their imaginary god to burn me in a dimension called hell. Is just as dumb as saying he will send you in Dimension X from TMNT.
Also religion causes wars, destruction and bigotry toward other non-Christian religion.
Conquistador was caused by religious people who commited genocide to the native and forced Roman Catholicism on the surviving.
zaxtor 2 months ago
Thankyou I am an Atheist, have a science background and never really made the link between the irrational beliefs/blind faith of people and the self-preservation instinct.
Interesting.
maccarolldabass 2 months ago
The study says the opposite to what you claim. Protestants, Catholics, born again Christians all experienced significantly less brain atrophy than those of "no religion".
Even the abstract of the paper explicitly states that those of "no relligion" experience higher rates of brain decay than protestants.
nopaniers 2 months ago
@nopaniers No, the abstract says, "Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was also observed from baseline to final assessment among born-again Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation, compared with Protestants not identifying as born-again."
Apparently the ones with the healthiest hippocampuses are Lutherans and Calvinists.
mrlandby 2 months ago
@mrlandby Right. According to the abstract, non-believers had "significantly higher rates of brain atrophy" than mainstream protestants (who were the baseline for the study). The survey data showed those of "no religion" experienced more brain atrophy than almost every other religious grouping surveyed. This included protestants (born again or not), Catholics, and those of "other" religion.
nopaniers 2 months ago
@nopaniers How does "No religious affliation" = "nonbelievers'?
HybridD91 2 months ago
@HybridD91 Nonbelievers fall within the "no religious affiliation" group.
nopaniers 2 months ago
@nopaniers I asked how does "no religious affliation" = "nonbelievers" not how does "nonbelievers" = "no religious affliation". C'mon logic 101.
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i agree completely :)
6jutub 2 months ago
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Weed has been linked to psychopathy, massive neurological impairment, cartilage degeneration, etc.
JohnSmith88823 2 months ago
I know that religion causes severe brain damage its worst than any man made drug thats addicted
AVTRU1 2 months ago
This appears to be quite an amazing video but i'll have to keep watching it. It's difficult to understand everything being said because of the music. Why do people find it necessary to play loud, dramatic music in all videos? Turn it down so we can hear you please :-)
queenvelvet 2 months ago
Great video but i have to point out the fact that no one can "tghink freelly"? Nuroscience has proved thuis to an extent, we are victims of culture the enviroment shapes up from child hood including bilogical enviroment
TheMidwestsk8ter 2 months ago
I feel lucky to have managed to break free from the cesspool of religion at the age of 15. I fear i may have been a zombie to religion if i had waited any longer.
Upscalemadness 2 months ago
@BarryGormley2010 Some day, you'll be old, and there will be young people (like yourself, I'm guessing) who will hate you for no better reason than the one you have stated above. Your comment reveals an immature prejudice that makes your feelings irrelevant.
spiderinthebooks 2 months ago
I am rather offended by many of the comments about older people in this thread.
Although I began silently asking some fundamental questions about religion very early in life, I did not fully disavow it until I was almost 50 years old.
In fact, I struggled very hard to hang on to my faith right up until the time that religious fanatics forced me to look long and hard at everything I had previously believed and at the origins of the By-bull and churches. After that there was no turning back!
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religious people are schizophrenics
Impulse116 2 months ago
very nice! check out "mental contamination and mental correction" if interested... cheers!
gahver 3 months ago
It's not religion itself that cuases brain damage, it's dogmatism, literalism, and the "divine authority" that religious people think they gain. However religious practices, which can induce (but do not proove the literal existance of) god experiences, actually exist and are benefitial to your health. Quite the opposite. Meditation, Prayer, and other symbolic acts can be psychologically beneficial.
Setaoshinjii 3 months ago
Have to agree with LuciusStone94 here. It's not very logical to claim religion causes brain damage when it actually depends on the specific religion and how it is taught to you that causes it (I still would like a few more scientific papers on this subject too for the sake of fairness.) I have a feeling you were raised in a rather extreme religious background, I myself was raised Roman Catholic (Buddhist now) but was never scared into believing in hell or anything like that.
MrSomalion 3 months ago
Cont. In fact my experience of Christianity was a good and kind one (I changed to Buddhism because it suited me more.) I think it's safe to state that any sort of upbringing that has some sort of deep extremism in it will be damaging however since religion is more open to be taken in an extremist view that is where we see most of the detrimental effects.
MrSomalion 3 months ago
Buddhism is a religion and it doesn't cause brain damage. It teaches liberation and has done great good. Christianity is not the entirety of religion. Logical my ass.
LuciusStone94 3 months ago
great vids man! keep up da good work homie! :D
MrCrumble2008 3 months ago
The most dangerous entity to human beings?
Belief.
donkosaurus 3 months ago
ug music covers up the dialog
Narajah 3 months ago
While watching this video, I have suffered formg barns damgsv,cx
AltimotionPictures 3 months ago
I want to look into the evidence that religion damages the hardware of our brain. I am certain that religion damages our reasoning processes. Please look at beliverinterviews where I document the irrationality of believers.
SamWiseGingy 3 months ago
Religions don't save you and that's why religious people fight against each other. Read the Bible in Acts 4:12 and John 14: 6 and it will let you know who really saves. Blessings
TheKc7819 3 months ago
Finally another Atheist is speaking up against religion, I honor you wakeup with 4k Internetz.
FFGFMENDOZA 3 months ago
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@TheBioBeast Nope !
But I see you seem to have a problem with people that don't agree with you...
SilvioManfredDante85 3 months ago
....and doesn't contradict ITSELF, even though passages are often taken out context and read in light of the reader's experience only and not on the context of the Bible as a whole and the people who wrote and the truths proclaimed within it.
This video is actually really good at showing the results of peoples' sin. When groups corrupt the truth and twist it into a form of manipulation, then that IS evil. But teaching the whole Bible the way it was meant to be taught is beautiful.
jakesaysrad 3 months ago
It's pretty obvious that this guy was one of the very kids he was talking about while he was growing up. And yet he's stating that kids who grow up under abusive religious systems such as the ones he deaconess turn out brain damaged. Using that logic, who's to say he didn't leave that system with a slightly shrunken hippocampus himself?
True Christianity doesn't rely on fear tactics like the author describes. It relies solely on the Bible, ie the inspired word of God, which defends itself...
jakesaysrad 3 months ago
@jakesaysrad - I stopped believing by the time I was 13, and though I was forced to go for another 4 years it was under duress and had no effect. If you look at the study (the link is in the info bar) you will see that brain atrophy was found in subjects in their late 50s. Religion is like cigarettes. If you quit while you're young you can heal. If you keep at it till you are retired, the damage is irreparable. Though I can't reach the older generations I can reach young people. That's my goal.
WakeupfromReligion 3 months ago 33
@WakeupfromReligion It's ironic because I grew up in Church and I was an Atheist until I was 13. Then Christ came into my heart and changed my life around. I'm a Christian, and you know what, I agree with you, religion does probably damage you. But like the guy above said, true Christianity is not about fear tactics, it's about love and Christ filling the void in our lives that we can't fill. True Christianity is not a religion - it's a relationship with Jesus Christ.
ownage2nubs 2 months ago
@ownage2nubs Also, here are some solid scientific statistics - people of faith and church-goers have lower death rates from many chronic diseases and longer life expectancies than Atheists or non Church-goers. They live more happier, more fulfilled, AND more healthier lives. And that's not me or other Christians just saying that - those are solid statistics.
ownage2nubs 2 months ago
@ownage2nubs ... what.
Look, I get it. The universe does not make sense to us. It's really huge and we don't know why it's here. We actually don't know why for a lot of things. As intelligent and rational creatures, this is an affront to our consciousness. We consistently seek answers, why this, why that.
But this does not mean God put us here. Who put God there? Why does God exist?
The human experience is discovery. Religion is ignorance.
Choose wisely.
Icollishaw 2 months ago
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@Icollishaw I love how Atheists always claim that there is no God because we have no evidence of God. If you were God and your plan was to see which of your 'children' had faith in you (after reading your book and comparing it with there experiences/feelings), would you let a little tidbit of evidence slip that you existed. That would make the whole thing pointless. Of course God is not going to let us have proof of his existence! Why would he and why should he? Jesus is not religion. He is God
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
@Icollishaw Haha, one of the reasons why I became a Christian was because it was scientifically proved to me. The arguments for not believing in God in general are irrational, lacking in proper proof and they are devoid of logic. No-one put God there, He was already there. As for why He exists, no-one knows. I know that you're going to reply by saying 'but that doesn't make sense' when actually, it makes perfect sense. If you want me to explain the science to you then inbox me.
ownage2nubs 2 months ago
@ownage2nubs haha, you are funny :D
735337707 2 months ago
@WakeupfromReligion Perhaps they are not hypotrophied at all, perhaps non-believers Hippocampi are hypertrophied because they over-think things, thus forming an over abundance of memories. Perhaps also the spatial/navigation portions of believer appear hypotrophied because they don't need to always think about where they are and/or where they are going - because they already know where they are (on God's green earth) and where they are going (to Heaven) Jesus preached love! He IS God.He IS Love.
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
@WakeupfromReligion and in other studies not in regards to religion but just aging in general the brain does not atrophy. So the idea that older people can't think clearly or lose their memory is a false general statement. The opposite is true as they can form connections more quickly. It was a study in regards to the early retirement age of pilots. They determined they in fact had better response times than younger pilots.
myopensecret 2 months ago
@jakesaysrad the fear tactics come from the bible, genius.
atimor 3 months ago
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@jakesaysrad You should look up the "No True Scotsman Fallacy" as you just perfectly executed it
52543735cam 2 months ago
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@jakesaysrad I guess I have to read your words carefully. I grew up Southern Baptist and there were a LOT of fear tactics used. Who can say what True Christianity is? Easy going Methodists? Old Testament 7th day adventists? Hell fire and brimstone southern Baptist?
luvstrixie 2 months ago
@jakesaysrad it doesnt defend itself, it is full of logical contradictions...thats how I escaped...save yourself...from religion
iulslion 2 months ago
@iulslion Focus on the words/teachings of Jesus. He stated very clearly that he was here to teach us the 'new' way. God's new pan for salvation. Eternal life is at stake. The old testament was made null and void when Jesus died for all of our sins. We just have to say thanks. Just imagine that everything Jesus ever said was true, that he did die for us. What if it was true. Wouldn't that make Jesus such a nice God! A nice man. That he died for others. He made it simple, yet we want it OUR way.
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
@jakesaysrad the bible uses fear tactics dumbass
Raphinater 2 months ago 2
@jakesaysrad inspired word of god... Houston we've got a problem. Also when I read the bible I have noticed many stories to inspire fear and last I checked the bible was written by people. Unless you're one of those people who think god literally breathed on the pages... oh yeah I've heard someone say those exact words and mean it literally.
myopensecret 2 months ago
A religious man once asked me:"Are you atheist?" and i replied:"No I'm just rational".
TubeNerd00 3 months ago 22
@TubeNerd00 I love how Atheists always claim that there is no God because we have no evidence of God. If you were God and your plan was to see which of your 'children' had faith in you (after reading your book and comparing it with there experiences/feelings), would you let a little tidbit of evidence slip that you existed. That would make the whole thing pointless. Of course God is not going to let us have proof of his existence! Why would he and why should he? Something came from nothing!?
gregorypeterfrancis 2 months ago
@gregorypeterfrancis Let me get you comments right.So you say Jesus is God's son and he is a God himself? You mixed me up, who is the real God and how many Gods are there? If I was God and as you said it I planed to see which of my 'children' had faith in me, I would simply let the free will take its course and would surely not burned my children in the fires of hell and surely I would not punish those who didn't have faith in me, cause I must have been the one to cause the disbelief.
TubeNerd00 2 months ago
does anyone know the music at the end of the video?
RACHELisAslapper 3 months ago
@RACHELisAslapper - It's from the film "28 weeks later".
WakeupfromReligion 3 months ago
@RACHELisAslapper In the house, in a heartbeat -John Murphy
PepperNinja0069 2 months ago
I don't know what to believe in anymore, i have no hope anymore..
falcocastillo123 3 months ago
if you watch this video, you'll burn in hell forever! there's no antidote, so forget about it.
{haha}
ho2cultcha 3 months ago
Not true of all branches of the Christian Faith, only the Hellfire & Damnation sects that dwell too much on Revelation. I'm a Methodist & I go to Church because I want to but because I am scared not too. For me, God is a loving Father who wants his children to do well. I've never once in my life heard a Hellfire & Damnation sermon & have no interest in hearing one. You raise some good points, instilling fear in a young child is horrible. I help with Vacation Bible School. We don't do that!
Kanbound 3 months ago
@Kanbound You don't teach the children that they are born into sin and must be saved by accepting the dogma of your cult?
HeatherSpoonheim 3 months ago
Hahaha this is so dumb !
SilvioManfredDante85 3 months ago
@SilvioManfredDante85 Oh, the irony. Tell me, are you a christian?
TheBioBeast 3 months ago
The video is good but the title is misleading. Religion does not cause brain damage. But rather, a specific, fundamentalist form of religion does. Religion can be a very abstract sense of belief, and sometimes it can be much more open minded.
MonsieurRondu 3 months ago