Study: People Imagine God in Their Own Images

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By Andrew Moseman
Dec 1, 2009 11:49 PMNov 19, 2019 10:53 PM
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, people tend to project their own opinions onto God, according to a new study (in press) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But, the researchers say, they also found that when people tweak their own opinions, they tend to also change their idea of God's beliefs in order to keep the two in line.

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