I wasn't asking for a proper scientific test, that was others. Religious words on their own don't have much of an emotional effect as often they don't mean anything to me.
You will understand though my desire to be sensitive and careful giving advice.
They may 'trigger' a 'here we go again' reaction.
I think my experience closest to this was saying and thinking that “religion was being pushed down my throat”. This was prior to me becoming a Christian, Subsequently I admitted to myself that this hadn’t been the case. It was an attack to defend strategy. When I rocked up at my local church I was surprised to find people I knew were actually active Christians.
Religious arguments can cause frustration and annoyance at times because I find them poor
In what way?
or that they revert to religious talk which to me means nothing.
You mean to you? Is that in terms of comprehension or stimulation?
I do find the typical 'thought for the day' style religious speak to be quite annoying
Why, do you find it condescending? Myself I find it a bit lightweight, twee and woolly often
but that i the same reaction as I get with 'arty talk' or 'poetic talk'. I heard an 'artist' talking on Radio 4 last week and found virtually everything she said to be arty nonsense and got a bit frustrated with her but also had a chuckle and recognised that to her it had meaning just not to me.
I think though we’ve got to avoid archetypes since that is the way to bigotry and reverse snobbery. I was terrified of book club people but Mrs Vlad joined and I took her there and back even forcing myself into meetings as moral support. Needless to say I’ve got into it and made friends out of people I didn’t expect too
We probably all have some emotional responses to all words or topics since that is all part of how our brains work - stimuli triggers thoughts associated with the words based on previous experiences with that word or topic. What this is supposed to mean when it comes to specific religious words or topics I don't know.
What point are you trying to make with all this?
There’s a lot that goes on under the bonnet of consciousness M. Fellow armchair philosopher Richard Dawkins talked of consciousness raising by which he meant for example that as a species we didn’t know our discourse was sexist until it had it’s consciousness raised.