(September 20, 2015 at 12:55 am)MTL Wrote:It is naive to assume someone who is deeply religious must also be really dumb - There certainly is a tendency (perhaps ignorance is a far better word to describe it) but let's not forget there are incredibly educated and smart terrorists planting bombs and committing suicide bombing, and clever, well educated intellectuals who support white supremacism and the whole white anglo saxon protestant thing(September 20, 2015 at 12:46 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I know religious folks who are pretty adept at compartmentalization.
oh yeah definitely.
I know an Engineer...and ENGINEER...an educated, clever, pragmatic man
...except he is also a born-again Baptist.
He thinks that big earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 was a judgment,
because Haiti "sold its soul to the devil"
in exchange for its freedom.
Also, he plumes himself on being enlightened because he was raised with Catholicism
but escaped the lies of the Catholic Church in favour of the "truth" of the Baptist Church.
I also know another man like that....the two of them work together, as it happens...
but the second man was raised in a Baptist home,
and plumes himself on escaping the lies of the Baptist Church,
in favour of the "truth" of the LDS.
Talk about the fucking frying pan and the fire.
Next stop, Jonestown.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
