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Religious indoctrination doesn't give individual children a sense of warmth and comfort in having a supernatural big daddy caring for them.

In many cases it creates added irrational fears and stresses to the individual children's lives, such as I experienced as a youngster when told I was being watched by such a being, the sense of lack of privacy, fear of sinning, fear of evil things and people.

The clinical name for this stress is Religious Trauma Syndrome or…

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This is a great article by Malcom Gladwell about how we sometimes fail under intense pressure to perform well, because we either choke or panic. He briefly describes the difference between implicit and explicit learning, and how these relate to choking and panicking under pressure. Well worth the long read. From the…

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In my book I write about infection techniques but the more I study those techniques the more appreciation I have for the role of decreased immune resistance in the process. You tend to get sick when your immune system is suppressed or weakened by stress. Opportunistic disease organisms take advantage of the weakness to infect. Many people get infected when they are young and have little resistance to religion and are under the intimidating protection of religious parents. Adults often get… Continue