Findings in neuroscience are now pulling back the curtain on religious moral thought.
In a revealing study by Nicholas Epley and others, Christian volunteers were asked to report their own views, the views of their deity and the views of others on a range of controversial issues, such as legal euthanasia while having their brain activity scanned.
Results showed that thinking about divine views activated the same brain regions as thinking about their own views, indicating that when believing themselves to be consulting a divine moral compass, theists may instead be doing what the rest of us do: searching their own conscience. An idea further supported by the finding that manipulating subjects' beliefs consistently influenced their views about divine beliefs.
As Epley's team put it: "intuiting god's beliefs... may... serve as an echo chamber to validate and justify one's own beliefs"
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