(November 23, 2015 at 12:45 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(November 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: Unfortunately religions are designed to be taken as seriously as possible, due to the things that they claim are at stake.
Why do modern, supposedly intelligent educated people, believe the BS that ancient con men cooked up? The average people of today should be herding goats in some desert. They are too stupid to live in the modern world.
There are people out there who only believe in God because they feel it is the "normal" thing to do. This is intellectual laziness, and yes, kinda stupid. But I think for most of us, due to our life experiences or for whatever other reason, it really does just make more sense to us for God to be real. I don't think this makes someone stupid or uneducated.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
