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ily ethic — with its implicit psycho-biology - in the household codes of Ephesians and I Colossians, 4 and the gospel of John's identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent "Word." 5 A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine's use of the neo-P

I For a sampling of relevant recent work, see Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler, eds., The Mechanical Mind in History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008); and Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman, eds., Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (New York: Columbia University Pr

th me. It just came and I had absolutely no control over it. I pulled over to the side of the road—I remember thinking that I was so in love with Jesus at that moment that no one else on the planet could come close. After about twenty minutes of real intensity the feeling subsided somewhat, but t

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aphrasing Paul in Romans, they had been saved and were living New Life, not earned by good works as in Hebraic Law, but by faith through God’s Grace. Jesus had “paid their bills’ through His sacrifice at Gethsemane. They both tried to explain inexplicable feelings of new energy, the unseen hand of spirit

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family ethic — with its implicit psycho-biology - in the household codes of Ephesians and I Colossians, * and the gospel of John’s identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent “Word.” A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine’s use of the neo-Platoni

. ' For a sampling of relevant recent work, see Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler, eds., The Mechanical Mind in History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008); and Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman, eds., Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (New York: Columbia University Press,

r with me. It just came and I had absolutely no control over it. I pulled over to the side of the road—I remember thinking that I was so in love with Jesus at that moment that no one else on the planet could come close. After about twenty minutes of real intensity the feeling subsided somewhat, but the p

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died in a car accident, he believed that she was having an affair with her gynecologist. At night, the second head spoke, accompanied by voices from Jesus and Abraham who confirmed the existence of the second head. As the patient expressed to the interviewing doctor “The other head kept trying to domina

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same disorder that led the Australian gentleman we encountered at the start of this chapter to believe that he had two heads and heard the voices of Jesus and Abraham. Estimates reveal a greater number of cases among Catholic than Islamic or Protestant societies, and the fewest among Hindu societies, al

ltruistic even in the absence of such rewards. Certainly, religions advocate doing good for the “right” reasons. In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 6, Jesus advocates, “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father

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