(August 5, 2022 at 5:58 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I'm 65 years old. The fact that I am not an idiot and that I also learned through experience means I don't need a keeper.I don’t underestimate anyone here. You said you’re not an idiot and I agree. It’s not about IQ though. Unfortunately, I’ve begrudgingly realized intelligent people can believe dumb ideas. All humans are to some degree intellectually lazy, irrational in decision-making, have multi layered confirmation biases, and other natural impulses that often obstruct critical thinking. Come on! On a forum of atheists no one has ever thought, “a lot of people are really stupid”?
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You underestimate me, sir.
I thought the prevailing opinion was that religious thought was heavily tied to anti-science / anti-intellectual beliefs. Colloquially, do we commonly perceive that people from other countries that are less religious are “smarter”?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
