Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Well, gee, this is *such* a surprise.
This will likely come as news to you all, I'm sure:
Believers’ Inferences About God’s Beliefs are Egocentric
Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people’s beliefs, according to new study published in the Nov. 30 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nicholas Epley, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, led the research, which included a series of survey and neuroimaging studies to examine the extent to which people’s own beliefs guide their predictions about God’s beliefs. The findings of Epley and his co-authors at Australia’s Monash University and UChicago extend existing work in psychology showing that people are often egocentric when they infer other people’s beliefs.
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The researchers noted that people often set their moral compasses according to what they presume to be God’s standards. “The central feature of a compass, however, is that it points north no matter what direction a person is facing,” they conclude. “This research suggests that, unlike an actual compass, inferences about God’s beliefs may instead point people further in whatever direction they are already facing.”
OK, here's a hint to what is going on here, and I'm going to be as clear and simple as possible, in case anyone misses the point: We invented God. Since *we* created the Sky-Daddy, is it at all surprising that God "believes" as we do?
This is true of every single fucking deity which mankind has invented. Said deity will reflect the culture and beliefs of the people who created it. Period.
Sheesh.
Jim Downey
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jim, you have always been an
jim,
you have always been an insignificant liar...
Nah.
If I'm a liar, I'm a *significant* one. Just ask my third-grade teacher.
Jim Downey
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So, would you be.......
Jim, reviewing your bio at left, I realized you are a fat old man with a beard. OK, an overweight middle-aged man with a beard. Any relation to a dude in a red suit?
Hey, if people can believe in a barefoot guy in a dress, we can believe in a fat old dude in a red suit (or in my experience, board shorts and flip-flops) can't we?
No relation.
Granted, ML, I've been known to wear dresses myself upon occasion, but no, no relation either to the barefoot fellow or Mr. Jelly Belly himself.
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
No inside line?
Rats. I was hoping we had a direct contact to clarify exactly what is meant by "naughty."
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Sing from the rooftops::
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pz, you are a dead man
Threats?
How very pathetic, old boy.
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
That explains why "G-d's image" has so much variation
When first reading the reports about this, I did wonder whether Homer Simpson's god believes he'll have another donut?
Nice find on this NAS study.
Nice find on this NAS study. :)
I have come up with the same conclusion that you did and it never seems to fail when evaluating any religion.