(March 15, 2015 at 3:33 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(March 15, 2015 at 10:55 am)The Reality Salesman Wrote:
I disagree with your thesis, as there are more types of crazy. My hypothesys is that there are several degrees of crazy based on education.
To my best idea, the more intelligent theists know they are lying, the more uneducated are just sheep, if you want to dichotomise it.
Maybe I should've narrowed the scope to encompass only our resident theists. I don't know if I'd say any of them "know" their lying. I'd say that the more educated ones tend to offer more complicated versions of the same nonsense. They've twisted and contorted their beliefs Into such extravagant ideas that may seem palletible to them, but the extent of their delusion is anyways tucked neatly behind a veil that only ever gets pulled away by the likes of us. Outside these domains, they're all perfectly content in a circle-jerk of mental masturbation where they sit around reinforcing their delusions with the incoherent arguments fit for such a task.