Our class seems to talk about religion and the belief in God alot! It's fun, I'm not complaining but I posted a link to a scientific study that theorizes that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief. In my case, this is certainly true. Brought up in a fanatically Christian household did not afford me questions brought up when considering faith critically and not intuitively. When I thought about spirituality and God in an analytical way it led me to question if the fantastic stories about spirit beings who would save me from an incredible evil created by God were true. Though this study states anylitical thinking alone is unlikely to change the minds of "believers" it is clearly present when people do change their minds. Very interesting!
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/27/study-analytic-thinking-can-decrease-religious-belief/
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