Dear God, please confirm what I already believe

December 1, 2009 | Source: New Scientist Life

Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs on controversial issues, University of Chicago researchers have found.

“These findings help explain why supernatural religious agents are often attributed a physical form and issue edicts that resemble the social practices of the culture from which they emerge,” says Jordan Grafman of the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.