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Kobojunkie:
Every Religion out there is of madness!

I taught you always said Christianity is not a religion, are you fooling yourself now

Kobojunkie:
And if shouting at her did not work, then what?

Shout more and walk away.

Dammit

blowjohn:
■ Shout more and walk away. Dammit

I see.... shout more and walk away leaving the helpless child caught in the arms of a potentially deluded individual. Brilliant! 😁😁😁😁😁😁

Expanse2020:
I taught you always said Christianity is not a religion, are you fooling yourself now

I don't know you personally but I seriously think you need to go get help at this point in time from a professional mental health therapist or something.

Fryx:
■ Taylor swift hate religion. But she believed in Karma. Most of us believe because we are thoughtful and observe our surroundings.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Na Taylor swift this one dey reference sef....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Taylor swift will even tell you she believes in you if that will help get you to buy her music.

Fryx:
■ Oh. You mean she will lie to you so that you can make insignificant contributions to her music even though she is a billionaire. She must be a professional liar to have lied to millions of adherents.

Mehn.... You are definitely seriously religious for you to believe all she says is the truth. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

hopefulLandlord:
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:21-22)

Jesus also reiterated it again

Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst. (Matthew 18:19-20)

and again

Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours. (Mark 11:24-25)

and again

And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it. (John 14:13-14)

and again

(Matthew 17:20 For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.) then whatever you ask for in prayer will be granted

Yes, and faith without works is still dead.

There is a reason why neither
Jesus nor his disciples went about ordering mountains to move into seas or fig trees to wither.

Miracles do not absolve us from personal responsibility or the use of our God given faculties.

HardMirror:
so god is useless

Not like that

But he has given us will to do what is right

Fryx:
■ Is Taylor Swift a religious leader? And where did I tell you I am religious. Do you even know the last time I pray?

I would not burden the gal with the delusion that you smoke there! Being religious isn't about saying prayers. At least invest some time in finding out the meaning of the word rather than poking around blindly like this!

bewla:
Not like that

But he has given us will to do what is right

comedy

Kobojunkie:
The women who were most impacted by the situation should have used the energy to rally for help from all of those around. They seemed more connected to the building that was on fire than the many passerbys appeared to be. And as such would have at least asked those walking by for help obtaining buckets getting water and putting the fire out. Standing in front of the building as it burned and chanting incantations like that made me even suspect they may have something to do with the fire..

I believe you get the point I am trying to make even though u will still want to argue.

So as big as that building, and the adjoining buildings (that the fire will likely get to when fuly expand), your common sense is telling u that it's only that 2 women who were praying that are directly connected to the building!

Be deceiving yourself!!

Lol.. this reporter is funny. The most the two women could do was just to pray. Others could call as well. Not as if only these two women witnessed the fire. Do they have fire service numbers? Do they even have phones? Would the fire department even pick the calls? Do they have serviceable vehicles, fuel in the vehicle, hydrant in the vehicle? Do they even come to work? Its like some dont know how this country has descended. You resort to prayers when you are helpless.

Kobojunkie:
I don't know you personally but I seriously think you need to go get help at this point in time from a professional mental health therapist or something.

Shut up..
That what you used to said that Christianity is not a religion and you classified the shit on that the religion...
Nothing de ur head than to abuse..

Expanse2020:
Shut up..
That what you used to said that Christianity is not a religion and you classified the shit on that the religion...
Nothing de ur head than to abuse..

Insulting me wlll not change the facts here. I don't know you personally but I seriously think you need to go get help at this point in time from a professional mental health therapist or something.

Kobojunkie:
Insulting me wlll not change the facts here. I don't know you personally but I seriously think you need to go get help at this point in time from a professional mental health therapist or something.

That only you know to abuse..you used to said Christianity is not a religion and now you said and categorize the Christianity as a religion..what your justification for that..
That only I asked confuse entity

Sonnobax15:
Religion has really killed every single right thinking cell in the brain of Africans.

Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain

A study links life-changing religious experiences, like being “born again,” with atrophy in the hippocampus

The article, “Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life,” by Amy Owen and colleagues at Duke University represents an important advance in our growing understanding of the relationship between the brain and religion. The study, published March 30 in PLoS One, showed greater atrophy in the hippocampus in individuals who identify with specific religious groups as well as those with no religious affiliation. It is a surprising result, given that many prior studies have shown religion to have potentially beneficial effects on brain function, anxiety, and depression.

A number of studies have evaluated the acute effects of religious practices, such as meditation and prayer, on the human brain. A smaller number of studies have evaluated the longer term effects of religion on the brain. Such studies, like the present one, have focused on differences in brain volume or brain function in those people heavily engaged in meditation or spiritual practices compared to those who are not. And an even fewer number of studies have explored the longitudinal effects of doing meditation or spiritual practices by evaluating subjects at two different time points.

In this study, Owen et al. used MRI to measure the volume of the hippocampus, a central structure of the limbic system that is involved in emotion as well as in memory formation. They evaluated the MRIs of 268 men and women aged 58 and over, who were originally recruited for the NeuroCognitive Outcomes of Depression in the Elderly study, but who also answered several questions regarding their religious beliefs and affiliation. The study by Owen et al. is unique in that it focuses specifically on religious individuals compared to non-religious individuals. This study also broke down these individuals into those who are born again or who have had life-changing religious experiences.
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The results showed significantly greater hippocampal atrophy in individuals reporting a life-changing religious experience. In addition, they found significantly greater hippocampal atrophy among born-again Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation, compared with Protestants not identifying as born-again.

The authors offer the hypothesis that the greater hippocampal atrophy in selected religious groups might be related to stress. They argue that some individuals in the religious minority, or those who struggle with their beliefs, experience higher levels of stress. This causes a release of stress hormones that are known to depress the volume of the hippocampus over time. This might also explain the fact that both non-religious as well as some religious individuals have smaller hippocampal volumes.

This is an interesting hypothesis. Many studies have shown positive effects of religion and spirituality on mental health, but there are also plenty of examples of negative impacts. There is evidence that members of religious groups who are persecuted or in the minority might have markedly greater stress and anxiety as they try to navigate their own society. Other times, a person might perceive God to be punishing them and therefore have significant stress in the face of their religious struggle. Others experience religious struggle because of conflicting ideas with their religious tradition or their family. Even very positive, life-changing experiences might be difficult to incorporate into the individual’s prevailing religious belief system and this can also lead to stress and anxiety. Perceived religious transgressions can cause emotional and psychological anguish. This “religious” and “spiritual pain” can be difficult to distinguish from pure physical pain. And all of these phenomena can have potentially negative effects on the brain.

Thus, Owen and her colleagues certainly pose a plausible hypothesis. They also cite some of the limitations of their findings, such as the small sample size. More importantly, the causal relationship between brain findings and religion is difficult to clearly establish. Is it possible, for example, that those people with smaller hippocampal volumes are more likely to have specific religious attributes, drawing the causal arrow in the other direction? Further, it might be that the factors leading up to the life-changing events are important and not just the experience itself. Since brain atrophy reflects everything that happens to a person up to that point, one cannot definitively conclude that the most intense experience was in fact the thing that resulted in brain atrophy. So there are many potential factors that could lead to the reported results. (It is also somewhat problematic that stress itself did not correlate with hippocampal volumes since this was one of the potential hypotheses proposed by the authors and thus, appears to undercut the conclusions.) One might ask whether it is possible that people who are more religious suffer greater inherent stress, but that their religion actually helps to protect them somewhat. Religion is frequently cited as an important coping mechanism for dealing with stress.

This new study is intriguing and important. It makes us think more about the complexity of the relationship between religion and the brain. This field of scholarship, referred to as neurotheology, can greatly advance our understanding of religion, spirituality, and the brain. Continued studies of both the acute and chronic effects of religion on the brain will be highly valuable. For now, we can be certain that religion affects the brain--we just are not certain how.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/religious-experiences-shrink-part-of-brain/