RE: Message for all theists
March 12, 2012 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 11:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Belief does not require any specific level of intelligence, high or low. Beliefs greatest achievement is that it can appeal to anyone, of any level of intelligence. It has a hook for every persuasion. I could argue that it takes a very sturdy mind indeed to hold a belief in the face of evidence to the contrary. You have to be smart enough to be able to fool yourself, and smart enough to be able to do so without realizing that you have done so. Apparently, it only takes an average level of intelligence to do this. So, I bet you could do it even better if you were of above average intelligence. Wouldn't that force us to at least consider the possibility that some fundies might be the smartest people we've ever met? On the other end of the scale, some people get these answers, their instruction manual for belief, from others. Indoctrination. Even those processes have originators. Human beings are entirely capable of being incredibly smart, while being simultaneously incredibly wrong, or incredibly dull, but spot on right.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
