RE: Atheists are mentally ill
August 15, 2013 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2013 at 5:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 14, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote: 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/
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?
Appearently there would be no advantage to trying to smarter if you are hardwired for idiocy.
