The first clinical evidence to link the temporal lobes with religious sensations came from monitoring how TLE patients responded to sets of words. In an experiment where people were shown either neutral words (table), erotic words (sex) or religious words (god), the control group was most excited by the sexually loaded words. This was picked up as a sweat response on the skin. People with temporal lobe epilepsy did not share this apparent sense of priorities. For them, religious words generated the greatest reaction. Sexual words were less exciting than neutral ones.

This is terribly interesting. Is it possible that the highly religious are simply rewiring their brains in order to tickle their sex-regions in a less straightforward manner? Religion is mental masturbation! Priceless! Thank you Science! 

http://sci-con.org/2008/01/god-on-the-brain/ (via leted)

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