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Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
(November 4, 2016 at 2:36 pm)Shell B Wrote: It's hard to say. Ben Carson had to have been intelligent to some degree. He was a fucking neurosurgeon, but he was also a bible thumper and a Creationist. Crazy.

Well, a lot of people who have book smarts have no common sense.  And his example just shows what a stranglehold religion has on some people's minds.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study - by Doubting Thomas - November 4, 2016 at 4:18 pm

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