What I mean is that for some people, the Gospel toggle some previously unknown bits in the brain that activates and transforms them. And, worship just becomes what they do. It's the freedom of it - they become unshackled. I really don't know how to describe it in a way that my previous atheist self would understand.
Ideas should speak for themselves and compete fairly on their own merits, and there should be no faith.
What I mean is that for some people, the Gospel toggle some previously unknown bits in the brain that activates and transforms them. And, worship just becomes what they do. It's the freedom of it - they become unshackled. I really don't know how to describe it in a way that my previous atheist self would understand.
How about "shackled" instead of "unshackled"? That might make the thing you're describing seem less extraordinary.
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> It's the freedom of it - they become unshackled.
Slave. That's what you describe.
I'm not attacking you when I say this: drugs can get you there, too.