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In reply to the discussion: "I support Free Speech, but I do not consider _______ Free Speech." [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)and it's not so much denial which raises ire to the level of violence, as actual insults directed against their God.
Funnily enough the boffins may very well have found God, pinned him to the vivisection board and are in the process of opening him up and figuring out exactly what makes him tick and why an insult against God is taken so personally.
fMRI & PET scanning have been used to find where god "lives" in our brains by asking 3 basic questions (obviously in a non-basic manner): What do YOU think about X? What do you think ANOTHER PERSON thinks about X? and What do you think GOD thinks about X?
Whether it's YOU or GOD almost identical parts of the brain light up, but when it's another individual, or even an animated cartoon, while there is some overlap, entirely different parts of the brain are also highly active.
Rather bluntly, God is that part of us, which tosses a hissy fit when others fail to behave as a we want them to.