Study links being 'born again' with brain atrophy

[MisterCreosote]

Researchers polled a bunch of people and found their brains are more likely to die off if they hold religious beliefs outside the mainstream, or if they drastically alter their belief systems during their lifetimes:

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/132456883.html?cmpid=15585797

 

[YGBFKM]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) will have a field day with this one.

"I knew Mitt Romney was retarded!"

 

[Bob Cook]

Actually, the study notes that those with NO religious beliefs have the same issues. The link is having religious beliefs outside a perceived mainstream, not the nature of those beliefs.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

So pick a religion early and stay with it or you'll get the stupid.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) will have a field day with this one.

"I knew Mitt Romney was retarded!"

There was a time when spinning27 was kicked off the site for posting stuff that wasn't nearly as hateful as this.

But something tells me nothing will happen to you for this post. I wonder why.

 

[heyabbott]

So pick a religion early and stay with it or you'll get the stupid.

This is why Jews rule the world

 

[dooley_womack1]

It sounds as if some people here changed their religion lately

 

[YGBFKM]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) will have a field day with this one.

"I knew Mitt Romney was retarded!"

There was a time when spinning27 was kicked off the site for posting stuff that wasn't nearly as hateful as this.

But something tells me nothing will happen to you for this post. I wonder why.

No outing!

Seriously, I'm way cooler than that dude.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Which came first?

And no, if that post gets someone kicked off the site (something we don't do unless someone goes completely off the rails; which is not very often), we are going to have to kick about half the people on here off.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I think the chicken, the hay, then the egg

 

[YankeeFan]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) will have a field day with this one.

"I knew Mitt Romney was retarded!"

There was a time when spinning27 was kicked off the site for posting stuff that wasn't nearly as hateful as this.

But something tells me nothing will happen to you for this post. I wonder why.

No outing!

Seriously, I'm way cooler than that dude.

I just hope the brain doesn't atrophy as a result of working in close proximity to people with religious beliefs outside the perceived mainstream.

If that's the case, we'd have to worry about several SportsJournalists.com members.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

So is that the trick? You can insult entire groups of people as long as you don't single out any one person?

So saying something like "All Republicans are racist lemmings" is OK since I didn't name any individuals?

 

[imjustagirl]

So is that the trick? You can insult entire groups of people as long as you don't single out any one person?

So saying something like "All Republicans are racist lemmings" is OK since I didn't name any individuals?

You've done it before.

 

[YankeeFan]

So is that the trick? You can insult entire groups of people as long as you don't single out any one person?

So saying something like "All Republicans are racist lemmings" is OK since I didn't name any individuals?

I must be missing something.

You're not usually a complainer. What's going on?

 

[Justin_Rice]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) ...

Do us all a favor and take the broad-brush stupidity to hannity.com or rush limbaugh 24/7 or whatever online service Glenn Beck is pimping these days.

The overwhelming majority of Democrats and Republicans in this country are Christian.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

So is that the trick? You can insult entire groups of people as long as you don't single out any one person?

So saying something like "All Republicans are racist lemmings" is OK since I didn't name any individuals?

I must be missing something.

You're not usually a complainer. What's going on?

This bugged the **** out of me:

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) ...

It's ****ing bull****. And incredibly insulting. I am a Democrat. I'm also a former Catholic and current Methodist. I don't hate religion.

It used to be I'd tell him to go **** himself, we'd have a flame war, the thread would be locked, we'd share a conciliatory PM or two and things would move on. But now I can't tell him to go **** himself. So I'm at least going to do something, which in this case is complain about his post.

 

[YankeeFan]

My reading of his post would be that all of SportsJournalists.com's religion haters are Dems, not that all of SportsJournalists.com's Dems are religion haters.

And, while you might argue that, there's a difference, and my reading isn't nearly as offensive. If you aren't in the group, no reason to take offense.

If you think he's wrong say so.

 

[YankeeFan]

I'm a Republican and I hate religion. Just sayin'.

And, there you go!

 

[YGBFKM]

SJ's religion haters (Democrats) ...

Do us all a favor and take the broad-brush stupidity to hannity.com or rush limbaugh 24/7 or whatever online service Glenn Beck is pimping these days.

The overwhelming majority of Democrats and Republicans in this country are Christian.

I was looking for a smaller stupidity brush -- like the kind you use to get those hard-to-reach corners just right -- but all I could find was a roller, so forgive me if I splattered any stupid paint on your shoes.

 

[The Big Ragu]

So is that the trick? You can insult entire groups of people as long as you don't single out any one person?

So saying something like "All Republicans are racist lemmings" is OK since I didn't name any individuals?

There isn't a "trick." We ask people not to intentionally be assholes on here. Some people get it; have no problem posting to a message board without bile and hatred or it being a constant source of drama in their lives. Some don't. We intervene when we really have to.

If you are hell bent on posting things designed to start ****, you might consider it "the trick." But really, aside from just being annoying, what it does is reflect on you.

I am not sure why would anyone be concerned with finding "the trick" to being a jerk on a message board.

This is place is supposed to be interesting and enjoyable and stimulating and witty. At least that is how I view it.

With that, can we please just get off the political party stuff? Just stop, please. This thread is going to inflame passions because of whatit is. I can lock it now, but maybe there is some discussion here that might interest someone.