RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 29, 2016 at 7:10 pm
Most of the times religion does seem to be the cause of stupidity, of stopping the cognitive functions to develop and to be rational. Especially when it is generational thing.
Aron Ra gives a very good overview of it. If you don't have time to watch it whole you can just look at first 10 minutes to get the picture.
Aron Ra gives a very good overview of it. If you don't have time to watch it whole you can just look at first 10 minutes to get the picture.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
