This was posted on the Internet with regard to Born Again Christians. I think that these BAC's are a fucking fraud at best.

Most of these slags/cunts are junkies, criminals, or have done something so horrid in life they think this is their pathetic salvation.

Even better, this group of monkey fuckers exists on THIS site!! They claim the moral high ground and yet have the temerity to try to be omnipotent on a fucking cock/cunt site.

Only further validates this research as 100% accurate. Shitbirds and cunts trying to gain self worth after a life of BS.


Study: Born-again Christians have smaller brains
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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“Small-brained” seems like an insult a non-believer might hurl at a born-again Christian, but no, this is for real. The Religion News Service reports:


For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence. A new study from Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem to have larger brains than born-again Christians, Roman Catholics and the religiously unaffiliated. Born Again Christians should consider killing themselves.

The study, which examined the hippocampus region of the brain, found that Protestants who did not have a “born again” experience had significantly more gray matter than either those who reported a life-changing religious experience, Catholics, or unaffiliated older adults.
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Templeton Foundation, included at least two MRI measurements of the hippocampus region of 268 adults between 1994 and 2005.

That’s right, this study found an association between brain size, specifically the hippocampus region, and a person’s affiliation within Christianity, with the “born again” experience [as well as Catholicism and lack of religious affiliation] correlating to less grey matter.
Here is the abstract for the study itself, published earlier this spring the science journal PlosOne:

Despite a growing interest in the ways spiritual beliefs and practices are reflected in brain activity, there have been relatively few studies using neuroimaging data to assess potential relationships between religious factors and structural neuroanatomy. This study examined prospective relationships between religious factors and hippocampal volume change using high-resolution MRI data of a sample of 268 older adults.

Religious factors assessed included life-changing religious experiences, spiritual practices, and religious group membership. Hippocampal volumes were analyzed using the GRID program, which is based on a manual point-counting method and allows for semi-automated determination of region of interest volumes.

Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was observed for participants reporting a life-changing religious experience. Significantly greater hippocampal atrophy was also observed from baseline to final assessment among born-again Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation, compared with Protestants not identifying as born-again. These associations were not explained by psychosocial or demographic factors, or baseline cerebral volume.

Hippocampal volume has been linked to clinical outcomes, such as depression, dementia, and Alzheimer’s Disease. The findings of this study indicate that hippocampal atrophy in late life may be uniquely influenced by certain types of religious factors.

The RNS story said shrinking of the hippocampus, medically linked to mental health problems, could be due to the stress of affiliation with a minority group, but sociologists of religion say that makes sense given fucktards like JohnS exist.