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    Scientists claim they can change your belief in God – with MAGNETS

    -ATTITUDES towards God and immigrants can be changed by beaming magnetic waves into the brain, scientists have claimed.

    A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values.

    Scientists looked at how the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.

    Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

    TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.

    Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.

    Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.

    Dr Keise Izuma, from the University of York, said: "People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems.

    "We wanted to find out whether a brain region that is linked with solving concrete problems, like deciding how to move one's body to overcome an obstacle, is also involved in solving abstract problems addressed by ideology."

    The scientists targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a brain region a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting and responding to problems...

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611...magnetic-waves

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    Belief in God was reduced almost by a third
    With people who have grown up with mild notions about God, I can believe that. Easy come, easy go. It doesn't say anything about what happened when they had had some time to think though. And at some point, this would amount to imposing a form of brain damage. Can people's brains become demented about God ? I should think so.

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    This morning I tried to switch off every thought related to God and see what would happen. One has to be very tough to accomplish that. That worked brilliantly for five seconds until the Holy Spirit showed up. Which produced recognition then recollection about what that is. Then he told me "you're funny". This experiment leads me to believe that even if every recollection of christianity had been erased from my brain then the Holy Spirit would have lead me to rediscover it all. And if I had become suddenly demented then he would have maintained a similar connection that I found before I managed to process with my brain what that was.

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