RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
September 26, 2015 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2015 at 2:19 pm by Salacious B. Crumb.)
(September 26, 2015 at 1:37 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there are theists who claim to be sceptics? I imagine there must be. I suppose no one gets to just say who is and isn't a sceptic, but it seems like a contradiction.
I'm sure there's some that say they are, but I think we both know that that can't be true.
Maybe there are christians that are skeptical of Shiva and Apollo, but that's about as far as it goes.
To actually call themselves skeptics, would be a bit of a stretch, to say the least.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-