"Religion causes a chronic biasing of visual attention"

[DRSB]

"Lorenza Colzato at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, and her colleagues, tested the bias of 72 Dutch participants towards either global or local processing - that's the big picture vs. the detail. The participants were from four groups: Conservative Calvinists (a form of Protestantism), Liberal Calvinists (who aren't so strict), Conservative Calvinists turned atheist and life-long atheists... Clear differences emerged between the groups: the life-long atheists showed the strongest bias for the big picture, followed by the Liberal Calvinists, and then the Conservative Calvinists and the former Conservative Calvinists turned atheist. The latter two groups performed similarly suggesting that more than seven years without religious practice wasn't enough to remove the effects of the religion on a person's attentional mindset."

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/

[Feck]

I love it every time they do tests of almost any sort on the religious it turns out they have mental problems or quirks .

[mistermack]

suggesting that more than seven years without religious practice wasn't enough to remove the effects of the religion on a person's attentional mindset."

What that suggests is that what you learn as a child will never leave.
So we should be teaching our children atheism, or at least independet thinking, not leaving it till they are old enough to 'decided for themselves'. It might be too late then.
.

[DRSB]

Yeah, not it is easy, we have a choice. Think of all those centuries where all learning was somehow related to the church. Weird to think how the course of history may have turned out had there been more secular learning.