
Wondering what would jesus do? A recent psychological study revealed that is the same as "What would I do?", according to Nicholas Epley from Chicago University. He showed that when religious Americans try to infer the will of God, they mainly draw on their own personal beliefs.
To make a long story short, by using a combination of surveys, psychological manipulation and brain-scanning, the study not only showed that people use their own beliefs as a starting point to infer God's mind; but also that they use the same part of the brain when considering God's will and their own opinions.

For some, religion provide a moral compass, and what Epley say here is that inferring the will of God sets the moral compass to whatever direction we ourselves are facing. He says, "Intuiting God's beliefs on important issues may not produce an independent guide, but may instead serve as an echo chamber to validate and justify one's own beliefs."
The main conclusion is that that using God to make decisions and judgments is little more than spiritual sockpuppetry : the loser whose opinions are indefensible, so he invents an army of aliases to agree with him. So what better sockpuppet than God himself?
A quote from Epley himself "People may use religious agents as a moral compass, forming impressions and making decisions based on what they presume God as the ultimate moral authority would believe or want. The central feature of a compass, however, is that it points north no matter what direction a person is facing. This research suggests that, unlike an actual compass, inferences about God's beliefs may instead point people further in whatever direction they are already facing."
Reference: PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.0908374106 and
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