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God's Emotions 7: The Stepford Jesus TrustingDoubt 1,706 views In Ira Levin's satirical thriller, The Stepford Wives, a young mother named Joanna discovers that her small town friends have been replaced by sophisticated robots manufact...
God's Emotions 6: Pleasing a High Status Deity (Supplication, Adulation, and Subservience) TrustingDoubt 2,328 views Do people think I am crabby? Or insecure? Or jealous? Do they think I am easily pleased? Happy? Contented? One way to tell would be to ask them. Another would be to watch...
God's Emotions 5: A God with a Temper TrustingDoubt 4,443 views In his famous 1741 sermon, Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards used the word anger three times, "angry" six times, "fierce" seventeen times, and "wrath" fifty one times. He c...
God's Emotions 2: What Psychology Can and Can't Say About God TrustingDoubt 2,654 views Psychology neither assumes nor denies the existence of a supernatural realm because the methods of science are not applicable to this question. That said, if we have suffi...
God's Emotions 4: What are Emotions Anyways? TrustingDoubt 4,118 views The Bible writers spoke as if God has emotions, and most Christians through history have spoken and behaved as if this were true. But to understand what that means you hav...
God's Emotions 3: Do Christians Really Believe God Has Emotions? TrustingDoubt 4,110 views Most religions talk about a realm beyond the natural world, a supernatural realm filled with supernatural persons. These persons have loyalties, desires and other human ps...
Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science 2B TrustingDoubt 5,054 views Why God has a Human Mind, continued. Erroneously published as part of the "God's Emotions" series, this video is the third in a series that applies the tools of cognit...
Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science 2A TrustingDoubt 4,054 views Why God has a Human Mind (Part A) Erroneously published as a part of the "God's Emotions" series, this video actually is the second in a series that applies cognitive sc...
God's Emotions 1: Why the Biblical God is So Human TrustingDoubt 7,750 views The idea that God has emotions seems so natural that most people who believe in gods never question it. The God of the Bible gets angry, has regrets, gets lonely, loves, ...

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Bio: Psychologist and former fundamentalist Valerie Tarico explores the intersection between belief and psychology with candor and compassion. Tarico is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light, a resource for recovering Evangelicals who seek to clear their minds of old dogmas.

Raised in a staunch fundamentalist family, Tarico attended Wheaton College of Billy Graham fame. She completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Iowa and postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington.

For years Tarico maintained a psychotherapy practice and practiced "don't ask, don't tell" about matters of faith. But as it became clear that Evangelicals were opening a public conversation about Christianity, she decided to join the fray. She shrunk her practice and began writing and speaking about fundamentalism, American style. She currently writes for the Huffington Post Religion Page and ExChristian.net, and hosts a monthly series, "Christianity in the Public Square" on Moral Politics Television in Seattle. She is also a contributor to The Christian Delusion (ed. John Loftus) with a chapter titled, "Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science."
Only one of her brothers thinks that she is actually channeling Satan.

Not content to spend her life energy critiquing traditional dogmas, Tarico is actively engaged in interspiritual dialogue that aims to find common ground between theists and freethinkers, in particular by focusing on humanity's shared moral core. She speaks regionally on topics such as moral development, the psychology of belief, and wisdom convergence as well as the dark side of traditional dogmas. She is a founder of WisdomCommons.org, an interactive site that allows users to find and discuss information about virtues that emerge repeatedly across secular and religious wisdom traditions. She writes a bi-weekly series, "Character Corner" for a parenting site, The Community of Mindful Parents.

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