"I am glad so many of you stupid, ignorrant, godless,people,are so without JESUS in your hearts"
The heart is just a blood pump. Nothing more. The heart has as much neurological effect on the rest of my body as does my left bollock; even if this 'Jesus' could physically exist in that organ (but then, if he isn't there, then that fucks up the concept of 'Omnipresence'; and isn't Jesus supposed to be 'God' too?! [/smartarse]).
...ah, but then 'Let Jesus into your brain' wouldn't sound as theologically credible now, would it, especially with the emotional flim-flam & verbal snake-oil employed by your preachers, eh?:
The number of times the word 'brain' appears in the Bible.
The number of times the word 'heart' appears in the Bible.
In ancient Japan, they considered the stomach to be the source of feeling & emotion, thus the act of slitting open the belly in Seppuku. In ancient Egypt, in the process of mummification, they removed & discarded the brain (via a hook through the nose); the major internal organs were removed & preserved in canopic jars, as they were considered the source of feeling.
I guess that's why you fundies rely on the Bible so much: it does the thinking for you.
Can't be thinking for yourself eh, gaetano? It creates doubt, resulting in critical thinking, and we can't be having that in your 'believers' now, can we?!
Assuming that the 'heart' has - apart from it's actual vital operational process - any effect on the body. 'Assume'. Where you make an ASS out of U, but not ME.
The Bible. Not exactly "Gray's Anatomy". 'Stupid and Ignorrant'? Not mentioning your display of educational inferiority in terms of literacy, who are the stupid and ignorant ones...? Not we Atheists.
College & university? I never went to either. But at least I learned about human anatomy in Biology at school (as well as RE & Comparative Religions). Notice one emission which prefaces that word: 'Home.' And that's the difference.
The Bible. 'Literal'; as in word-for-word, letter-for-letter 'Word of God'. Except for the parts that are purely 'fable' and metaphor. Therefore not literal throughout; ergo, not the 'Word of God', thus Atheism. Q.E. and D., bitches
Smells kinda like bullshit to me. Just like the concept of a 'God'.