(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".
Fairy tales that are believed as religions are at least answers by people to essential questions.
If you go to an exam and write nothing, it's a lot worse then having answers that are partially right and partially wrong.
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.
At least people believing in fairy tales attempted to answer essential questions.
"false" is not the word to argue. Not required is what I would say.
Every religion in the world has members and holy people who point to their heros/ideas/motifs to claim motifs of kindness and compassion and justice.
Most empathetic humans seek non violence and cooperation. That is evolutionary, not religious. When your direct neighbor and you seek out resources you find that cooperation is preferred to conflict, in turn that fosters more stability and more opportunity in safety in numbers. Our species flawed perceptions created religions to which we falsely attach morality to being handed to us rather than being in our genes.
It is not false in the sense to say, "Be kind", but it is false to claim Mickey Mouse is real and is the reason you have the ability to be kind. Mickey Mouse is not required to be kind, it is merely a fiction humans create to convey an idea.
Hindus will point to their writings to justify charity and giving, and so do Jews and Christians. But we can see the same ideas of compassion and justice and charity in art such as books and movies and cartoons. Ideas of charity and giving are not a patent owned by any religion, they are an attribute of our species evolution.
