I don't buy it.

"When your brain assigns equal importance to several things at once your attention bottle neck jams. You go attentionally blind to EVERYTHING. It can be merely annoying or catastrophic - for example, a driver engrossed in a cell phone conversation may go mind-blind to an obstacle right in front of his eyes."

"It's unnerving, then that humans have created an environment unnaturally jammed with attention-grabbing information. Take advertising (please). Our brains evolved to pay close attention to unusually bright colors, food, sex, babies, physical danger and other information salient to survival. So marketers bombard us with such images, making them even brighter, louder, gorier, geared to out compete all other attention demands."

It's also quite interesting then, that religions create this ultimate attention grabbing idea of eternal damnation and eternal judgment. Who's not gonna get a little freaked out by that notion? Something we can't see, can't touch, and can't fight is gonna steal our eternal souls into a never ending agony if we don't do what they say.

Somehow, that doesn't sound like an unconditionally loving, selfless, wise God that they teach about.

Ah well, back to the drawing board.