Interesting study about the reason some people are immovable religious fundamentalists.

I’m a Christian and think I have dane bramage from HS football.


Please don’t hate on me.

 

Fundamentalist is a term too loosely used by many. First we have to establish the definition at play

Frankly most Christian conservatives get that label these days from some folks

What many folks call fundamentalist isnt really that at all.

(And yes, i have issues with many things in the fundamental Christian movement in the way it exist in western culture )

 

I've never been more scared in my life than one night when I was six or seven years old. There was a Holy Roller tent revival meeting across the road from my grandparents' house. It sounded like they were having so much fun that I begged my mother to take me over there. So she did.

As we sat there in the service, things weren't too bad until a lady a few feet away jumped up and started speaking in tongues. I moved closer to my mother and said, "I'm not feeling too well, Mama. I think we better go." So she took me by the hand and we got up.

As we were walking out of the tent, the preacher pointed at us and said, "Lady, you could be walking into eternity out there!"

We didn't walk into eternity, but it's quite possible that I suffered some brain damage that night.

 

I am not a fan of old hymns and our church doesnt really sing them, but I totally get this perspective. Because those old hymns represent the pureness of the faith. The stories of their origins are the stuff of legends, written by people who have lost everything in some cases. Pure emotion went into most of those writings

 

grew up in the baptist church. My mom played piano in our church. Anyway, I literally just heard this song prior to logging on. love it! it's called jews for jesus blues.

I was searching for something I could not describe
So I stared at the sun till the tears filled my eyes
Well I thought I was empty so I paid the cost
But now that I'm found I miss being lost

I opened my heart and I let Jesus in
With the promise that I would be free of my sins
But I only felt guilty that he died on the cross
Now that I'm found I miss being lost

I don't wanna suffer and I don't wanna die
I want the clouds parted in an endless, blue sky
But someone up there has a different plan
Now that I'm saved I wish I was damned

 

I would think that the more connected your religion is to your constructed identity, fear and fundamentalism increase..

Also while not an injury, there is a high correlation between regiousity and conservatism, who’s brains exhibit more neural activity in the reptilian areas than the pre-frontal cortex.