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frozencompass
25th April 2009, 22:01
Here is an interesting video I watched today. It is a talk by psychiatrist Andy Thomson at the American Atheist 2009 convention.

The video explores the psychological mechanisms that innately lead people into believing religious statements and the ways religions exploit social functions found in human nature (functions initially intended as a means to cooperate).

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