(September 7, 2012 at 7:48 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:I used to wonder why Christians sound so incredibly stupid
The Christians who insist on infesting Atheist forums tend to be atypical,giving the impression the average Christian is as dumb as bagful of hammers. This impressions is incorrect.
A lot of Christians come across as really stupid because their beliefs are based on authority, (dogma)rather than proof. For such people, the cerebral cortex is a vestigial organ.
They are NOT clinically stupid,merely willfully pig ignorant. The reason it is so hard to tell the difference between them and the clinically stupid is that for all practical purposes,there isn't one.
Grene, with a high-functioning cerebral cortex,you are also a typical. I think you sometimes seem a bit confused/conflicted, but never stupid.
Thanks for your kind remarks. The reason why I don't sound stupid is because I don't believe in a supernatural being. I believe the moment you believe in such a being and worse, if you try to justify it or much much worse (as some self-righteous Christians do) you insist those who don't believe are stupid or perverse, the reasoning part of the brain begins to atrophy like what happened to this poor man whose brain cells have atrophied for 50 years (or so he says):
