(March 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I think he is a waste of the IQ level in mere cunning and eloquence. Has high IQ but has no wisdom and hence is stupid in that sense.
(March 28, 2017 at 11:21 am)Minimalist Wrote: How does a highly intelligent person not talk down to people who believe in silly fairy tales?
By having something called "virtue" and "manners".
In my opinion, trying to rid people of their false beliefs, is a virtue.
Quote:Fairy tales that are believed as religions are at least answers by people to essential questions.
Several problems here.
There are good methods to arrive at answers to essential questions, and bad methods. Religions, all of them, are bad methods. The single best method ever discovered as a path to truth, is the scientific method.
Something is true whether it comes from a religious belief or not. The fact that religions may get some things correct, has nothing to do with the source being a religion.
Quote:If you go to an exam and write nothing, it's a lot worse then having answers that are partially right and partially wrong.
False analogy.
Quote:No religion is totally false in all it's entirety as far as I know. Atheism may not be false as simply non-belief, but it's a whole worse then partially wrong and right answers, hence it's even worse then total wrong answer.
All religions are false when it comes to any supernatural claim or story.
Having partially wrong answers is what moves knowledge forward. Partially wrong answers, that are understood to possibly partially wrong, are much better than religion's made up wrong answers, that are believed to be correct.
Quote:At least people believing in fairy tales attempted to answer essential questions.
Attempted, and failed.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
