Get ready for a lot of butt-hurt. Someone seems to be upset at the articles saying atheists are smarter.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanth...tally-ill/
Apparently, not believing in the magic man watching over your shoulder is crazy.
Perhaps we have just evolved past the need for delusional crutches?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanth...tally-ill/
Quote:Obviously, it’s the believers who are smarter. Anyone who thinks otherwise is mentally ill.
And I mean that literally: the evidence today implies that atheism is a form of mental illness. And this is because science is showing that the human mind is hard-wired for faith: we have, as a species, evolved to believe, which is one crucial reason why believers are happier – religious people have all their faculties intact, they are fully functioning humans.
Therefore, being an atheist – lacking the vital faculty of faith – should be seen as an affliction, and a tragic deficiency: something akin to blindness. Which makes Richard Dawkins the intellectual equivalent of an amputee, furiously waving his stumps in the air, boasting that he has no hands.
Apparently, not believing in the magic man watching over your shoulder is crazy.
Perhaps we have just evolved past the need for delusional crutches?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
