The placebo effect.
The brain is fascinating. It can make you see, hear and feel things that aren’t there.
In test cases, the placebo effect has proven to cure people with the use of inert medicines.
What does that mean? The way I see it, this is the same way people believe in God.
When enough people around you are telling you there is a God, it makes it easier for you to believe.
When a trusted doctor is telling you that this pill will make your headache go away, it makes it easier to believe it will.
So for a portion of the people, their brain will treat the pill as if it had the same effect as real medicine because they believe it will.
And then there are people like me that the placebo doesn’t work on because I don’t have blind faith in anything.
Even when I take store bought medicine I don’t think they will work. I take them hoping they will work this time. And some times they do.
So where’s the problem? Even if you tell the person that took the placebo (who had a cured headache) that it had no effect whatsoever, they will still believe something in it worked. They will deny the fact that their brain was tricked into believing something that wasn’t true. This is the same with believers.
God is a placebo. It’s something with no power to make changes at all but your belief in it will effect how your brain treats it.
Believing in God is a trick your mind plays on you because you allow it. It’s all in your head.
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