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When Theology Needs Psychology (#165)

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Why Aren't We Attracted to Gods?

Kids are attracted to those purpose kinds of explanations of things in the natural world. Kellermann and her collaborators, like Elissa Yarnafel, have even shown that these tendencies persist into adulthood. And so then you can immediately start thinking about ghosts and spirits that are not embodied,. at least in the usual sense.

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