... what is it about some brains that allow the stupidity...?
The OP said religious behavior gives some people "support".
If you got an answer about the brain, how would it matter to the OP's point?
It's like someone mentioning there are people take long drives to see a park, and then someone wants to explain it in terms of fuel combustion.
If the brain's a little or a lot behind ALL behaviors, then how's it explanatory about the good or bad in people's choices? Mixed into the braintalk are comments about how mistaken that theist belief/behavior is and how atheists behave more intelligently... but they don't say why that's true. Instead they quickly turn to "conjecture" about brains instead. It looks to me like moralizers trying to make their moralizing seem "objective".
So I'm wondering how a "god gene" or "brain architecture" can support the belief that theist beliefs are a problem. Let's say a fellow believes in God and looking in his head reveals there's only half a brain there. LOL. I wonder, so what? Does that say ANYTHING AT ALL about the rightness or wrongness, or utility, of his god-belief? Even if he's brain damaged and possibly less capable in some way or other than atheists, it doesn't mean his belief is incorrect.
FWIW I don't think religious beliefs are in any way a problem, or that people are somehow wrong for holding them. To me this line of thinking is far too linear and assumes that behaviour can be objectively bad toward some end. Usually the implication is that reason is good and lack of reason is bad, which is a far, far too simplistic of a look at human nature and history. Reason and lack of religious belief, in addition to the good it can do, can also mean we exploit each other with more precision, and that we're no longer constrained by religious morals. If God doesn't exist then we can do whatever we can get away with.
In practice, our species doesn't have a raison d'etre, progression, or long-term goal besides mating, surviving, and producing children. Religion continues to exist because, cognitively, people like practising it. Any significant change away from a culture that is dominated by religion begins and ends with a materialistic understanding of nature. Some will find that explanation more appealing, others will continue to find God appealing. Either belief isn't right or wrong in an ethical sense, they're just things that happen given human diversity.
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