Pain relief to believe in

Religious faith may prompt the brain to put a hurt on pain. "'Our data suggest that religious belief alters the brain in a way that changes how a person responds to pain,' says Oxford neuroscientist and study coauthor Irene Tracey... In contrast, professed atheists and agnostics derived no pain relief from viewing the same religious image while getting uncomfortably zapped on the hand." So basically, atheism is literally painful.

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