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When neuroscience explains religious experience

I'm studying neuroscience and learning about how the brain creates religious experiences but I still feel God when I pray and I don't know if that makes my faith fake.

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Scientific understanding of spiritual experience's biological basis threatens the seeker's sense of transcendent encounter, reducing sacred mystery to neural activity.

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