HeyJaredColin Brewer
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Legacies of 9/11: On Suicide and Paradise - The Freethinker (opens the original)
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The recent 25th anniversary of what Americans confusingly call ‘9/11’ (it would have been 11/9 over here) should make us think about what goes on in the minds of suicide bombers. The idea that Islamist terrorists are partly motivated by the prospect of two-and-seventy virgins is hardly new but not many people seem to have asked where that idea originated. The answer may be embarrassing for Christians, but it is discouraging for unbelievers. Embarrassing because it mainly originated with Christia
The God Effect - The Freethinker (opens the original)
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At various times over the last few years while writing The God Effect: How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses, I checked occasionally to see whether anyone else had written a book about religion as a kind of cosmic placebo. As of 2 June, when The God Effect was published, nobody had. The nearest thing was a few paragraphs in an excellent book called How God Works by Professor David DeSteno. He is an expert in the psychology of religion and he confirmed th
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