Reply #17: Given that there appears to be a place in the brain [View All]

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that is directly related to some of the religious experience and that, in some of us, that god center, or whatever one wishes to call it, seems to vary in effect and importance from person to person. For some, it seems to exist hardly at all.
There is no way that we can state definitively just how much effect this may have had on two hundred generation removed forebears.
Most of the current conflict arises from jockeying for positions of power and using the gullibility of one's fellows for advantage and then a mix of sincere adherents and self deluded aspirants.