(September 19, 2013 at 12:20 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I do feel sympathy for her as she may have been deeply indoctrinated. I don't believe I'm smarter than the religious. I'm just lucky that I escaped that kind of brain-washing from childhood that might have happened if I'd been born into another family or environment.
Then again, she may be just trying to get sympathy. I don't know her story but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
My parents are deeply religious though they are very intelligent people. Intelligence does not ensure rationality. This is something I have found very disturbing about religious people.
However, this woman mentioned this on a marriage forum. So this wasn't a sympathy plea. She was on topic for the discussion where she posted it.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.