Scientists Believe Real Life Midi-Chlorians Exist And Can Manipulate The Rituals Of ‘Religious’ Persons
We hypothesize that
certain aspects of
religious behavior
observed in the human
society could be
influenced by
microbial host control
and that the
transmission of some
religious rituals
could be regarded as
the simultaneous
transmission of both
ideas (memes) and
parasitic organisms.
We predict that
next-generation
microbiome sequencing
of samples obtained
from gut or brain
tissues of control
subjects and subjects
with a history of
voluntary active
participation in
certain religious
rituals that promote
microbial transmission
will lead to the
discovery of microbes,
whose presence has a
consistent and
positive association
with religious
behavior. If proven
true, our hypothesis
may provide insights
on the origin and
pervasiveness of
certain religious
practices and provide
an alternative
explanation for
recently published
positive associations
between
parasite-stress and
religiosity. The
discovery of novel
microorganisms that
affect host behavior
may improve our
understanding of
neurobiology and
neurochemistry, while
the diversity of such
organisms may be of
interest to
evolutionary
biologists and
religious scholars…