According to a new scientific study published in the Journal, Neuro Psychology, uh, there
is a link that scientists have now confirmed between damage to a person's prefrontal cortex
and religious fundamentalism.
Scientists who went back and looked at ct scans of Vietnam veterans who had had some
form of damage to their pre frontal cortex and then gave them tests to assess their religiosity,
found that there is a direct link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism.
Now, here's the thing.
This is what they explained throughout this study.
I encourage everyone to go read this.
This is absolutely fascinating, but the prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that helps
control creativity, open-mindedness curiosity.
You know the things that actually make us question what we see, what we hear, what we
know when there is damage to that, it hinders that particular ability so people do not question.
They accept something for what it is, and now with religious fundamentalism, those things
are not based in logic and reason already.
And they have found that people who are fundamentally religious do not question those beliefs at
all ever, and now they believe they may have found out why.
And there's many things that can cause damage to a person's prefrontal cortex, drug abuse,
alcohol abuse, a blunt trauma, you know, ptsd, things like that.
All of them and many more can damage this part of the brain.
It's very delicate.
And here's where we are.
And this study is important because in too many parts of the world, including parts of
America here, a religious fundamentalism reigns supreme, and I'm not just talking about the
average person who says yes, I believe in God and I go to church every Sunday, sometimes
every Wednesday.
That's not who these people were looking at.
They are looking at the people who lived their life according to a document that they believe
was written by God himself or his prophets.
Those people who believe that every word in that book is 100 percent true and they live
their life by it.
And furthermore, they want to force it upon everyone else as well.
This is not your average everyday religious person.
These are the people you see screaming at other people on the street corners while holding
up a Bible that's the kind of people that have this affliction and that's what scientists
were trying to determine, is this just who they are or is there a psychological neurological
reason that they behave this way and they believe that they have found the link, so
the next time you see somebody standing on the street corner screaming at you to live
your life by the Bible, those may actually be cries for help because this person is not
mentally stable, at least according to the available research.
They need help and this is a problem that has to be addressed.
Scientists are discovering more and more.
This is not the first study that has linked brain damage to religious fundamentalism in
the last 12 months and I don't believe that it's going to be the last one that we see
of this.
The link is becoming clearer and clearer.
These people need help and scientists are doing what they can to help them, but at the
same time, this, and I cannot stress this enough.
This is not an attack on religion.
This is not an attack on the way anybody lives there lives which you do in private is fine.
You want to go to church, go to church, believe in God.
I don't care.
It doesn't bother me or affect me either way, but it's when you come out and you try to
impose your beliefs on another human being and you refused the question, anything about
those beliefs, that's when it becomes a problem.
That's when it goes to full blown religious fundamentalism and that right now is what
scientists are trying to fix.
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