I wanted add a follow up point on this article.

Some might challenge the word "addiction" as applied to religion. I think it does apply, but with some nuance applied. Many things are potentially addictive, but not all become addicted. For example, gambling is potentially addictive, but many people might buy a few lottery tickets, play poker, or visit a casino occasionally, and not have an addiction. It doesn't control them. Sadly others blow huge amounts on gambling and it is indeed an addiction.

Are all Christians "addicts" of religion. No. But religious belief, putting it crudely, comes from the emotional and pleasure seeking part of the brain, where addictive behaviour fires off. I'm no expert, but I've ready plenty about this from others who are. You match certain personality types to some religions, or variants thereof, and indeed addiction is what you have.

It is good to see articles like this. Religious belief covers many things, including culture and politics, but it also involves human psychology and neurology as the basis for addictive and harmful religious belief. A lot of serious books about atheism deal with this issue, and I don't just mean the New Atheists.

The psychology and neurology of religion is something we should all be concerned about.
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