clipped from www.americanthinker.com

experts from several scientific and academic disciplines, whose objective is to provide a scientific (psychological?) diagnosis of the inexorable human propensity to engage in the religious experience.

Why this team of researchers and academics has been entrusted with what sounds like a rather gargantuan task to be performed at what some would argue is a disproportionably low budget is not entirely clear. As stated in one of their informational brochures, they expect the results of this research to yield information that may, at some future juncture, serve as a blueprint for "formulating social policy" and "promoting inter-religious and inter-ethnic tolerance". This is what is known behind closed doors as the clever use of social engineering to subtly introduce and gradually enforce religious and cultural hegemony.

One may suspect, judging from the decidedly neo-Darwinian parlance that permeates the writings of University of Oxford Professor Harvey Whitehouse