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It's important, that should people have trouble with things neurology has proven/may prove, that somebody takes care to help them get a hold of things
You could actually say the same thing about most discoveries. People have had to adjust to the demystification of the world around them for a long time. There will always be a group that fights every new discovery as wrong according to their predetermined philosophy. There is little difference between the flat earthers, the creationists and the new mystics showing up to demand that the soul is indisputable.
There is nothing that science seems to discover that doesn't offend some archaic belief. This is not just about religion - scientists disputed Darwin and Galileo too. Neurology will be no different.
Eventually, all of these groups clinging to their preconceptions begin spinning towards unreality and lose sight of their principles in defense of them.
everyone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvellous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalisation, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1953)
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