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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (3186)	11/7/2000 10:14:26 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I surely do agree with you. Social sheep things and getting into certain brain states associated with acts of self-abasement. And also there are the brain-feelings that go with the feeling of affiliation with power. Maybe that's part of the self-abasement drive. The drive to affiliate no-questions-asked with most powerful guy in the cave was certainly a survival one. I suspect that as we learn more and more about brain chemistry and the nervous system and the nature of consciousness, the postulation of a "God" will look different. If, for example, a certain center of the brain getting zapped with an electrical charge, or a certain pill, makes a person feel extremely religious, suddenly, that might affect attitudes toward the reliableness of those feelings as indicators of the veracity of theistic notions.