Psychology of Belief, Part 10: Summary and Conclusions

Let's face it. We could make 10 hours worth of this stuff, but hopefully the point has been made. All religious faiths, without exception, are empirically unjustified. They exist only because human beings are prone to psychological manipulation and cognitive bias. Not only have we conclusively debunked every serious argument for God's existence from a rational standpoint, but we are reaching the point where we can experimentally model the very reasons why people find these arguments compelling in the first place. Let's hurry up and ditch this religious nonsense before some Jesus-freak gets his hands on nuclear weapons.

Flow chart:

http://casualentropy.blogspot.com/2011/12/flow-chart-part-10.html

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[HaploidCell]

Not only does it have no purpose - prayer can have a NEGATIVE impact.

You can divide the patients that are being prayed for up into 2 categories:

One group you TELL that you are praying for them with a group of very faithful people.

The other group, you don't.

Guess which group will manifest the most complications withing those 30 days?

That's right. The group that knows it's being prayed for.

Pitty = attention = people want it and want more of it.

[AntiCitizenX]

@HaploidCell

Check out 5:03 in the video.

[kempion]

OK, so when the universe Milkway, Solar system, Sun, planets, moons and the Earth stop moving, we will finally have atomic clocks that are even more accurate?

[AntiCitizenX]

@kempion

The clocks are perfectly accurate already. It is time itself that changes.

[exmo74]

"This, above all else, is the ultimate crime against humanity committed by religion."

[AntiCitizenX]

@SpinachSalad01

I may in the future. I was just running out of specific material that was being targeted at religious conversion and arguments. Plus there are others things I want to do as well. A really good one is what I call "Ted Haggerd Syndrone." The more anti-gay someone is, the more likely it is that they harbor latent homosexual arousal. And yes, we can prove this experimentally. ;)

[philopolymath]

YOU need to FIND your ignorance...I KNOW MINE.

[philopolymath]

Ah death by selection exclusion and concision..

So now you have SELECTED a DISCREET data set to support an argument that STILL HAS no relationship in evidencing GOD.

FYI there are COPIOUS data sets that include the POSITIVE efficacy of prayer,shapes crystals other ill understood mechanisms which EFFECT health crops animals plants water MANY anomalies.

The VALUE of the DATA is OFT REFUSED acceptance for POLITICAL reasons NOT empirical

ROYAL RAYMOND RIFE KILLED ALL DISEASES..PAST TENSE DONE FACT.

[PachucoDesigns]

@MultiMooseProduction He cited all of his sources. I'm pretty sure that's a good start to understanding where he learned it.

[QWieke]

Just watched these 10 videos (over the course of a day) and I love the moment you go "consider the following experiment". Your cognitive/psychological approach to explain religion is very interesting. (And love the link to the flow chart, flow charts ftw.)

[Aeythvaenn]

Thanks for the series! :)

[FaganRoberts]

I doubt Obama is going to lead any charge for science and reason. He's a fucking Christian.

[HaploidCell]

@AntiCitizenX LOL - goes to show I should really watch your stuff TWICE.

Everyone should do that anyway :D

[GohModley]

Fuckin' A