RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
December 21, 2017 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 6:04 pm by Banned.)
(December 21, 2017 at 8:22 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: "Surprised how many people agree" sounds like a generalization. Maybe it's not, but it isn't usually a phrase one uses to describe an insignificant minority. My apologies if I misconstrued your statements.Yes, "surprised how many people" infers "more than expected" but you cannot then say that the statement concludes that the majority of atheists on the forum are the same.
If you feel that God is being misrepresented, say so. Don't expect people to automatically nod in agreement... expect pushback. Very few here misrepresent God IMO. They simply don't think he exists. The entity referred to in the Bible, "God" does permit and endorse genocide and things like that, but I don't know specifically what you're referring to.
Give an example of a misrepresentation of God from these forums and I'll discuss it with you right here right now.
When you post in these forums, you have to follow the rules. If we were to meet elsewhere, the mods couldn't penalize you for how you behave toward me.
As far as misrepresenting God is concerned, my posts have been quite clear about that since recently joining the forum.
I don't have a problem with the forum rules, and I think that I have attempted to be fairly reasonable in my communicating, not to attack someone personally.
But obviously there are people who will buy insults where there are none and then blame it on the nearest thing. But I appreciate your good manners.
We don't expect people to nod in agreement at all, we love upfront conversation, without sarcasm and personal attacks.
Anyway, it's another tangent to the topic.
(December 21, 2017 at 8:31 am)Whateverist Wrote: ... maybe it is time you come down off your moral high horse, Starhunter.A short example would have helped. Because I don't want you to read what isn't in there.
It is difficult to judge the tone of what someone writes, unlike a live conversation. And I am not saying I don't misread others either.
(December 21, 2017 at 10:18 am)Cyberman Wrote: I think that supernatural belief is irrational and people who insist that it represents reality are delusional. They only become stupid when they invent Heath Robinson machines of rationalisations to justify their beliefs, all to avoid the far simpler and less convenient truths.
That's a reasonable stance. But for example,
the Australian Aboriginal people were used as trackers, to hunt down wanted men. They could see, percieve and hear things that no white fellow could.
People can see, percieve and hear things that others simply cannot, and of course as the Bible puts it, they, and I include myself here, are willingly ignorant, they don't want to know, so they cannot know.
There are things God would have me realise that I don't, because I am limited, blind and lazy.
(December 21, 2017 at 11:16 am)KevinM1 Wrote: While age doesn't have much to do with intelligence, it does heavily impact experience. And most of the kids I've ever been around lacked the experience to come up with a witty retort.
Also, you're in no position to refrain me from responding. This is the second time you've tried to play at being a moderator in this thread (the first being repeated claims that the people responding to you were sock puppets). It seems your best rhetorical move is merely attempting to silence your opposition, which is a bad look for both yourself and your beliefs.
As for the rest, I stand by it. Hint: note the word 'might'.
Someone wrote - "Neener neener"
what age does that 'witty retort' belong to?
