Okay, I know you have noticed that I’ve kinda written a lot about the Super DeLux Brand Christians who have closed mind and closed wallets but spread around judgement like bread on the waters.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Come to find out, they can’t help it.

Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.

And we think we know why that happens: stress.  That’s right, we when you feel outside the mainstream, that causes stress.

According to the study, people who said they were a “born-again” Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or “atrophy”) compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.

So the lesson here is:  get born once and then quit it.

I remember that every time Tom DeLay used to get caught doing something illegal or immoral, he’d get born again again.  They take him down to the river and dunk him a couple of times.  Then we’d have to skim nasty off the river for a week.

Bless his heart, if Rick Santorum gets born again again, he’ll be in the negative brain weight division.  That’s what happened to Dick Cheney’s heart, you know.  He’s so mean, his heart resigned.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.