Historical Origins Of Religious Beliefs - Dr. Andy Thomson @ W&L Law School

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Dr. J. Anderson Thomson gave his lecture "Why we believe in gods" at the Washington & Lee Law School (W&L Law) in Lexington, VA on October 15, 2008.

J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. (Andy) is a part-time staff psychiatrist. He received his B.A. from Duke University (1970), his M.D. from the University of Virginia (1974) and did his adult psychiatry training at U.Va. (1974-77). His private practice is oriented toward individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensic psychiatry, and medication consultation. He is the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at U.Va., which involves interdisciplinary intervention and research in large group ethnic and political conflict. He has publications on narcissistic personality disorder, PTSD, and the psychology of racism, and psychobiographical essays on Robert E. Lee and Lee Harvey Oswald. His current research interest is in the area of evolutionary psychology. (Source: University of Virginia)

Watch the full lecture at www.richarddawkins.net/article,3373,Why-we-believe-in-gods,J-Anderson-Thomson

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[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 I know; I also work and go to school. I have to crack the books.

[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 I REALITY I do not follow any one but what GOD has put into my heart. GOD is not a religion or a book. God made these things, ergo, these thingswill not make GOD. Also, I myself get into heated debate with people of all faiths. but thank you, I like to listen to people who are sincere in what they perceive to be true.

[Airlightf]

@architect333 I don't ignore anything. If that wasn't true, I wouldn't be here listening to you guys.

[Larkinized2010]

@Airlightf But I can no longer continue this discussion. My job is giving me 40+ hours and I have to get things ready so that I may start school in the spring after my temporary hiatus to devote time to my job so money will not be an issue while I'm in school again. So I will not have the time to address anything you ask. But truly wish youtube would allow me to cite sources for you so you can better understand what I am saying. Oh well.

[Larkinized2010]

@Airlightf If Christianity is your chosen faith and you are content to live within the scope it allows, then live your life in the happiest way possible. I will read the book you have suggested whenever I can come across a copy. It is my hope that you will open your mind and not blindly follow what ANYONE (me, peers, parents, pastors, etc) without checking into it for yourself if it is true. Don't be so quick to write things off but approach EVERYTHING with some degree of initial skepticism.

[architect333]

@Airlightf this comment was not for you, it was a response to Larkinized2010. As to having the spirit of god, and bibles, good for you! All i can say to that is don't ignore the rest of the world and what it has to offer.

[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 please read "The Language of God"

[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 How can you be so blind? Atheists have a god too.

[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 Yes, architect333 is a good guy. I do not need "theories"The Christmas Evolution Tree or the Big Pop Corn (wich was heated by who knows) or chance/ randomness or billions/millions[=the God of gaps] of years--to explain my existence or that God is Real. In addition, you have not proved to me that know what you are talking about.

[Airlightf]

@Larkinized2010 I've read quite a few books about religion but thank you I will read those two