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I am interested in the blind faith that sends terrorists or kamikaze pilots to destroy ships, or buildings or people even at the cost of their own lives. reports on terrorism Fbi definition of terrorism. I am interested in the faith of Christian martyrs who faced lions in the Colosseum or the fires of the inquisition rather than renounce their own beliefs. Someone asked me the other day whether I though that the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington would lead to a lasting rebirth of religious faith in Western nations. Certainly there was a rush to places of worship in the immediate aftermath of September 11. reports on terrorism Suvs and terrorism. However, one of the problems in answering the question of this upsurge's longevity is the confusion in what we mean by what we call 'faith' or 'spirituality. ' In reality there is an amalgam of three quite distinct things. These are:Belief in religious dogmasSpiritual practices including meditation, prayer etc. reports on terrorism Potassium iodide and terrorism. The search for community and the need to belongIn neurological terms the first two use different areas of the brain. We are wired for belief, there is a part of the central cortex known as the 'god spot' which predisposes us to accept things on faith, to believe. Meditation, prayer and perhaps the sense of oneness with All There Is (or Universal Consciousness) and religious ecstasy are controlled by a part of the cerebrum just above the visual cortex at the rear of our heads. Since we are social creatures we tend to do everything in community with others, and the need to belong to a community, group or tribe is very strong. The more we deny any one of these three aspects of our spiritual experience the more we are liable to suffer from mental or physical illness. This is a point that was made in a recent WHO report and in several health news items we have featured recently in our Health News Archive (see "Religious Observance Leads to Longer Life" and "'The Prayer Spot' Found"). Disasters, whether immediate and dramatic such as the recent ones, or longer term such as the Oklahoma dust bowl, tend to draw people to communion with others in a religious setting on the one hand and to a desperate clinging to faith on the other. There was an upsurge in outward signs of belief during the days of the black death in mediaeval Europe, and bin Laden's recruits come from the religious fanaticism engendered by the grinding poverty and hopelessness of people in many Muslim countries. A Gallup poll conducted in the US in the wake of the terrorist attack showed that 47 percent of respondents said they had attended church or synagogue in the last seven days, a level rarely seen since the 1950s. A spokesman for the New York Buddhist Temple, Kenjitsu Nakagaki, spoke of the enormous increase in the numbers coming through their doors. At the same time he lamented "People have come here to seek peace. But with so many people, it was sometimes a little less than calm. "Benton Johnson, a religion professor at the University of Oregon, argues that religious services have provided ritual and sanctuary at a time when both were desperately needed. But, he says, that doesn't necessarily mean that thousands of people have suddenly decided to become regularly observant. He was quoted in ABC News saying "My guess is that most people who've gone into churches and synagogues haven't had their beliefs changed. They're going for ceremony, to show grievance and for community. "A great friend of mine, the Rev Pat Palmer of the Center for Conscious Living in Clearwater, Florida, makes something of the same point: "At CCL, we found that many of us wanted to be together immediately following the attacks, and we let ourselves share our grief through special services at the Center. We have been encouraging each other to find and release those shadows within the self which support anger or judgement or sadness. By letting go of those barriers to love, within the self, we don't continue to project them out to the world. "There's no doubt that Americans, as opposed to Europeans or Australians, consider themselves a religious people. Ninety-five percent told and ABC poll last year that they believe in God.
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