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Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
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Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
I read an interesting post on my Facebook page last night about religions' effects on the mind and body. I believe some of them and am pretty skeptical of others. According to this piece, more religious people have:

-Higher levels of teen pregnancy.
That could not be more obvious. Those Christian fundamentalist states in the deep south teach abstinence only sexual education, which is detrimental to public health. Yeah, kids, you should just ignore your natural sexual urges and you'll be fine. Of course, the states that teach that crap have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation.

-Higher racist tendencies.
I can understand this to an extent. Look at the Council of Conservative Citizens. They are a Christian white supremacist organization made up of the former members of the 1960s White Citizens Councils. "God is the author of racism. God is the One who divided mankind into different types. ... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God", their motto reads. Let's also not forget the Ku Klux Klan: The Protestant church's biggest embarrassment to date.

-Higher violence rates.
That is another obvious one. You all know about Al Qaeda and the nuts on Fox "News". Killers Richard Poplawski and Byron Williams were overzealous Glenn Beck fans.

-Diminished health.
This makes me think of those so-called faith-based healing scandals, in which parents have refused to allow their children medical attention, and prayed for them instead. Many children have died from lack of medical care because of this.

-Lower IQs
How can you honestly measure IQ? There are so many different types of intelligence.

-Higher porn usage.
WHAT WHAT WHAT? Confused Fall Can't make sense of that one.

-Lower incomes.
I don't believe that one at all. Look at Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter and Bryan Fischer. They make tons of money preaching their hateful propaganda on national television.

There are more of them, but a lot of them sounded alike, so I grouped them together into the terms above. Any thoughts as to why more religious people consume more porn? Any other thoughts?
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
(July 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: -Lower IQs
How can you honestly measure IQ? There are so many different types of intelligence.

Just because someone can play a musical instrument does not make the individual particularly intelligent.

(July 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: -Lower incomes.
I don't believe that one at all. Look at Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter and Bryan Fischer. They make tons of money preaching their hateful propaganda on national television.

A majority of theists reside in the bible belt where they are rather poor, and republican to boot. Other than supporting the republican's stance on religion, it never made any sense to me that poor people would be republican due to the fact that republicans are not for the people so much as they are for their rich friends who fit into the one percentile bracket.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
I'll hazard that shame+anonymity makes computer porn a pleasant distraction.

That, and pious Christian women are frigid bitches.
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
Being religious is a temporary state of being. I was once very religious, I no longer am. Non-believers become believers, and believers fall out of religion everyday. There are those that stay believers their entire lives or stay atheists their entire lives. But otherwise, permanent characteristics are unlikely to be associated with religion, IMHO.

(July 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: -Lower IQs
How can you honestly measure IQ? There are so many different types of intelligence.
Like IQ. My intelligence never changed when I became an atheist. But I would guess that religious people are in general more ignorant, because they are less likely to learn things that would shake their faiths.

Quote:-Lower incomes.
I don't believe that one at all. Look at Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter and Bryan Fischer. They make tons of money preaching their hateful propaganda on national television.
Yea, I don't believe this at all. The ability for someone to compartmentalize their brain is too great to significantly disadvantage them when it comes to earning a living.
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
(July 31, 2013 at 9:36 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:
(July 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: -Lower IQs
How can you honestly measure IQ? There are so many different types of intelligence.

Just because someone can play a musical instrument does not make the individual particularly intelligent.

That's the point. There are many, many different types of intelligence (IQ). So someone can be a total idiot in certain areas, and a genius in other areas.

(July 31, 2013 at 9:44 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: That, and pious Christian women are frigid bitches.

ROFLOL
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
Quote: -Higher porn usage.

WHAT WHAT WHAT? Can't make

sense of that one.

Hahahaha the more you don't know anything about sex the more you WANT to know about it! And even then, when you live in such a repressed society, your testicles simply can't handle the weight of it...
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.

Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.

Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.

Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.

Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
Here, Let me fix that for you...

Quote:And even then, when you live in such a repressed society, You simply can't handle the weight of your testicles...

(i was going to post a pic of Buster Gonad, but wasn't sure if it crossed a line)
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
(July 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: -Higher porn usage.
WHAT WHAT WHAT? Confused Fall Can't make sense of that one.

Why not? Christians are just as horny as the rest of us, but yet they're constantly bombarded with the notion that premarital sex is wrong and sinful, and some of the more fundie Christians believe that any sex other than missionary for the purpose of procreation is sinful. Plus in conservative circles sex is that one thing that's just not talked about, and women are often embarrassed to even have sex with their husbands. In other words, there is a lot of sexual repression so they have to find sexual outlets elsewhere.

It's no different how in Islamic theocracies like Saudi Arabia which have strict prohibitions on sex and mandate that their women must be covered in public, but they often watch porn in private.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Mental and Physical Effects of Religion
Excellent points re intelligence. All IQ tests are good for is determining how well someone takes IQ tests.

Quote:Just because someone can play a musical instrument does not make the individual particularly intelligent.

Too right. I play 6 instruments, and I'm thick as a plank.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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