Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief

Freshly Exhumed writes "A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. The study, which will appear in tomorrow's issue of Science (abstract), finds that thinking analytically increases disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief."

Comments

Re:Actually Rational Though can increase Faith

[Barsteward]

"those come down to moral issues, informed by my faith" - does that include stoning people death for various reasons, genocide, homophobia etc? If not, why not?

Re:Whoever is responsible for this article

[rainmouse]

Actually the article seemed rational and logical to me, and I'm a Christian.

Surely though, to me it seems a little more rational than the idea of a loving, all powerful patriarchal father figure who drowned all his children. A deity who unforgivably and eternally punishes his own creations for thought crimes; A God who frequently refers to himself in the first person plural, who felt the need to be nailed to a board so he could sacrifice himself to himself for an inherited original sin from a story mostly regarded as metaphorical.