(August 17, 2017 at 2:57 am)Little lunch Wrote: I once tried to open the front door of my house with the button on my car keys.
I was a stupid x-tian at the time.
Since I became an atheist my IQ has really jumped up a few notches.
Alas, I can only imagine how smart I'd be if I was born an atheist. :-(
It's nice to be the smartest person out of my genetic bloodline for hundreds and hundreds of years though. :-)
It doesn't make a person genuinely stupid, it just puts the worst of ideas in their heads and convinces them (for the worst of reasons) that they're good/correct. It discourages them from learning things or rejecting conflicting ideas, so it stunts their ability and capacity to think critically and acquire knowledge, creating a more ignorant mind. The brain works on 'use it or lose it', so just like with the kids who bitch about having to learn math when they're never going to have a practical application for it in real life, if you don't develop that part of your mind, you'll have a much harder time getting it in shape later on in life. That's why it's the worst sort of crime forcing that mindset on the young. You may as well literally be performing brain surgery on some of the hopeless cases, for the effect indoctrination has and how impossible it becomes to reverse.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
