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Explaining religious experience away as a symptom of bodily disorder is a too simple-minded 'medical materialism'

Drawn from what William James said

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religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What William James actually said

  1. William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
    Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic.

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