(December 6, 2011 at 3:03 pm)JollyForr Wrote: As we can see from earlier posts, some men of faith are inclined to believe in their religion out of yearning for some kind of purpose in life, while gravely avoiding the quest for the truth of their claims. It's not merely about intelligence; was not the majority of atheists once believers? It takes only the right tools to become an atheist - the proper mental tools required for breaking free from the degrading and childish shackles. Smart people can believe in religion; it shouldn't mean that if they believe in God, they're not smart; it just shows that the belief system is highly complex, and hollow words like 'stupid', will never even clip the real matter of what's going on.
Religion can intrude on anyone, because it's such a powerful delusion that it's so often hard to see through its thick wall of bullshit.
I just don't understand how smart people can believe in religious and supernatural myths though.
Surely smart or intelligent means a person won't believe far fetched claims in the absense of any evidence whatsoever.
And I don't think religions thick wall of bullshit is anything but extremely easy to see through in the best of times.
You'd have to be deaf. Religion just screams bullshit.
