{"id":11250,"date":"2016-12-03T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2016-12-03T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:54:09","slug":"the-neuroscience-argument-that-religion-shaped-the-very-structure-of-our-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/the-neuroscience-argument-that-religion-shaped-the-very-structure-of-our-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"The neuroscience argument that religion shaped the very structure of our brains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An interesting concept, though it could easily be the reverse. Did man create religion or does religion create man? Religion is mostly about bringing man together over shared belief or experience…but if causality can be proved, and religion can create changes in the collective brain structure of humans, then it seems to me that you are on the edge of proving the existence of God and the ability to manipulate matter with power within our minds.
\nFoil hat theories aside…this is interesting shit.<\/p>\n

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An interesting concept, though it could easily be the reverse. Did man create religion or does religion create man? Religion is mostly about bringing man together over shared belief or experience…but if causality can be proved, and religion can create changes in the collective brain structure of humans, then it seems to me that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-11250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10327,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/tom-cruise-scientology-is-a-beautiful-religion\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":0},"title":"Tom Cruise: Scientology is ‘a beautiful religion’","date":"October 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise Crazy...just be glad it's him not you\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2eJPdth","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12830,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/a-rabbi-a-priest-and-an-atheist-smoke-marijuana-and-talk-about-religion\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":1},"title":"A rabbi, a priest, and an atheist smoke marijuana and talk about religion","date":"March 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe the world would Unite for it's own good, if only more religious leaders sat down and shared their commonalities over bong hits, rather than contesting their differences on battlefields. #News420http:\/\/bit.ly\/2mhMImF","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10385,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/witchcraft-is-the-perfect-religion-for-liberal-millennials\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":2},"title":"Witchcraft is the perfect religion for liberal millennials","date":"October 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Witchcraft is the perfect religion for wiccans. 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