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In reply to the discussion: Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]Bickle
(109 posts)It's been proven.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-free-will-an-illusion/
The simplest example is the Pavlobian response. When I open a safety seal, my cats mouth uncontrollably waters. Because his favorite treat has a safety seal. The same things happen to people. PTSD is related
Serial Killers, child molestors, they are compelled to do it. They literally cannot stop themselves. No one with free will decides its fun to do those things.
You are not religious because you decided to be. You were programmed. Evangelical pastors yes a cadence of speech with literal, proven hypnotic effects so powerful they drive people to endorphin highs so severe they babble uncontrollably (speaking in tongues). This is an unconscious response that overrides reason.
Your church lies to you, because they wants to keep you a paying customer, and freely you can't exist without them, even so far as putting a gun to your head (hell). Former Christians often talk about the illogical fears that their emotional mind has yet to overcome.
It's not a belief. It's emperically supported