Disgust is definitely an emotional response that can help to keep and safeguard physical and spiritual wholesomeness by signaling contamination and motivating the restoration of private hygiene. In our research we predicted that disgust might be elicited by connection with outgroup religious values, because these values pose a menace to spiritual wholesomeness. Two experiments examined this conjecture utilizing a repeated taste-test paradigm by which participants sampled and ranked a glass or two pre and post copying a passage from an outgroup religion. In Experiment 1, Christian participants demonstrated elevated disgust after writing a passage in the Qur an or Richard Dawkins The God Delusion, although not a control text. Experiment 2 duplicated this effect, as well as demonstrated that connection with an ingroup religious belief (Christian believers copying in the Bible) didn't elicit disgust. Furthermore, Experiment 2 demonstrated that disgust to declined values was removed when participants were permitted to clean their hands after copying the passage, symbolically rebuilding spiritual hygiene. Together, these results prove connection with declined religious values brings about disgust by symbolically breaking spiritual wholesomeness. Implications for intergroup relations between religious groups is talked about, and also the role of disgust within the protection of values that hold moral value. 
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