There are two units of our minds that are constantly at war with each other. Each battles to render the other impotent. This continues through out our lives.
They are our rational or logical unit and religious or God units.
Our rational unit tries to explain and understand things logically.
It protects us from doing things that are illogical or irrational eg.
Shooting our selves in the head.
while Our religious unit accepts instructions the way they are - by faith. It encourages us to do things that defy reason and 'common sense'.
Eg. Killing ourselves to go to heaven or donating our life savings to the poor.
The problem is, as you can see, they are directly against each other. The more of your rational unit you use, the less of your religious unit you use.
And vice versa.
Its either an action you are INSTRUCTED to perform is rational or its irrational.
At every point in time, you always have to choose the unit to obey.
For instance, if a soldier in the battle field is ordered to run into the enemy machine gun direction. It defies reason, but he does it because, during training they have forcefully etched it into his mind to process any instructions from his commanding officer using his God unit.
That's why you see hundreds of soldiers run into a massacre just because of an instruction. At that point, their commanding officer becomes their God, so they are literarily obeying God, no need to question anything.
These two units know they are at war so they are constantly fighting against each other.
With every instruction added to your religious or god unit, you are warned not to allow common sense or logic to override it.
For instance, remember these famous words "whatever you place above God in your heart become your God"?
Every instruction in our God unit comes with a warning.
The reason is because, our rational unit is constantly improving itself as we go through life. It learns from experiences, studies and memory.
So over time it gains enough experience to override one more instruction in the religious unit.
For instance, a soldier may no longer obey that 'attack' instruction if he comes to understand that his commanding officer has an ulterior motive for the war. He will no longer takes his commanding officer as God.
One way the the religious unit attempts to combat this progressive rediscovery is by constantly repeating it's instructions with their warnings against logic to the person.
That's why soldiers are not allowed to travel home forever after training. They have to live in the barracks and those instructions are constantly repeated to them. How often? Everyday!
That's why we go to church everyday and are encouraged to join another church if we get to travel.
So if a Preacher wants to make people do something that defies reason, what does he do?
He does or shows them something that counters their logic then asks them to surrender to their religious unit.
Eg. Heal, appear to heal or show them the healing of a crippled man.
Then he can ask them to do anything and they will take in his instruction into their God unit...you know the rest.

Another way that this happens is during forceful brainwashing, for instance, in the case of child soldier recruitment. A child is snatched from his parents, then they try to counter his logic and understanding of how things should work by doing several things:
1. Give him a gun and forced to shoot his parents
2. Treat him harshly to show him their is no hope
3. Then make him believe he is fighting for a cause...and fill the rest of his religious unit with all the other instructions they wish.
Note that, this write up is not against any religion or going to church, just pointing out how the human brain works.
*sorry for typo
Dave Ozoalor
@Daveozoalor
http://facebook.com/daveozoalor
http://twitter.com/daveozoalor
http://braintem.org

moderatorr1:
There are two units of our minds that are constantly at war with each other. Each battles to render the other impotent. This continues through out our lives.
They are our rational or logical unit and religious or God units.
Our rational unit tries to explain and understand things logically.
It protects us from doing things that are illogical or irrational eg.
Shooting our selves in the head.
while Our religious unit accepts instructions the way they are - by faith. It encourages us to do things that defy reason and 'common sense'.
Eg. Killing ourselves to go to heaven or donating our life savings to the poor.
The problem is, as you can see, they are directly against each other. The more of your rational unit you use, the less of your religious unit you use.
And vice versa.
Its either an action you are INSTRUCTED to perform is rational or its irrational.
At every point in time, you always have to choose the unit to obey.
For instance, if a soldier in the battle field is ordered to run into the enemy machine gun direction. It defies reason, but he does it because, during training they have forcefully etched it into his mind to process any instructions from his commanding officer using his God unit.
That's why you see hundreds of soldiers run into a massacre just because of an instruction. At that point, their commanding officer becomes their God, so they are literarily obeying God, no need to question anything.
These two units know they are at war so they are constantly fighting against each other.
With every instruction added to your religious or god unit, you are warned not to allow common sense or logic to override it.
For instance, remember these famous words "whatever you place above God in your heart become your God"?
Every instruction in our God unit comes with a warning.
The reason is because, our rational unit is constantly improving itself as we go through life. It learns from experiences, studies and memory.
So over time it gains enough experience to override one more instruction in the religious unit.
For instance, a soldier may no longer obey that 'attack' instruction if he comes to understand that his commanding officer has an ulterior motive for the war. He will no longer takes his commanding officer as God.
One way the the religious unit attempts to combat this progressive rediscovery is by constantly repeating it's instructions with their warnings against logic to the person.
That's why soldiers are not allowed to travel home forever after training. They have to live in the barracks and those instructions are constantly repeated to them. How often? Everyday!
That's why we go to church everyday and are encouraged to join another church if we get to travel.
So if a Preacher wants to make people do something that defies reason, what does he do?
He does or shows them something that counters their logic then asks them to surrender to their religious unit.
Eg. Heal, appear to heal or show them the healing of a crippled man.
Then he can ask them to do anything and they will take in his instruction into their God unit...you know the rest.
Another way that this happens is during forceful brainwashing, for instance, in the case of child soldier recruitment. A child is snatched from his parents, then they try to counter his logic and understanding of how things should work by doing several things:
1. Give him a gun and forced to shoot his parents
2. Treat him harshly to show him their is no hope
3. Then make him believe he is fighting for a cause...and fill the rest of his religious unit with all the other instructions they wish.
Note that, this write up is not against any religion or going to church, just pointing out how the human brain works.
*sorry for typo
Dave Ozoalor
@Daveozoalor
http://facebook.com/daveozoalor
http://twitter.com/daveozoalor
http://braintem.org

I love when simple truths come out so elagantly.

plaetton:
I love when simple truths come out so elagantly.

Thanks