Some claim Atheists dont make sense How do you know you're just not smart enough to understand?

Answer 1

It's not that hardcore bible-thumping deists aren't smart; it's just that they're encouraged to keep their minds very, very small.

Answer 2

When I look around at the intellectual gifts possessed by many of the atheists who participate in Yahoo Answers, I don't see any compelling reason to accept your argument.

I _do_ see a lot of misdirected sarcasm, poorly thought out arguments, and many copy-pasted paradoxes that even a cursory search would reveal have already come up. I see logical fallacies such as red herrings, straw men, and slippery slopes. I see a poor grasp of the religions being argued against. And I see the frequently resorted-to tooth fairy and flying spaghetti monster. These latter are in-jokes of such an inbred nature that surely any middlingly intelligent atheist would have to realize they'll never bring more than a 'wha...???' from anyone else.

Now don't get me wrong; everything I've identified above has been just as true of many of the religious contributors.

But if atheism requires smarts, the evidence for that hypothesis has seldom surfaced at Yahoo Answers. Many of our atheists clearly wouldn't qualify for the clubhouse.

Answer 3

It's not about intelligence.

God is about this - we don't really know he's there, there is no proof. As Christians or Jews or Muslims....we just believe he is there. We have faith.

Atheists struggle with this, some people need proof. Atheists make plenty of sense, they just think God doesn't make sense, and in a way, he doesn't.

Does it really "make sense" to believe in something that we cannot see, feel, taste, smell, etc. Meaning - is God a "logical" or "rational" idea. He's not, but we still have faith. Atheists for whatever personal reason....cannot or choose not to believe in something that they don't have proof of, and cannot make sense of.

To play "Devil's Advocate" - think about it like this. There's no proof of Santa and yet some still believe, and they're not considered "smart." In fact they're considered stupid or gullible. Santa is something that we made up right? Humans made up Santa. Perhaps Atheists just feel that we made up God too and its "stupid" for us to believe he's real. But yet we believers in God feel that they are the "stupid" ones...so who is really the smart one? No one can say for sure.

Answer 4

Here is a test, a good starting point:
Are you capable of understanding this?
Aristotle's Laws of Thought.
They are expressed as the law of excluded middle (that anything must be either A or not-A); the law of non-contradiction (that nothing can be both A and not-A); and, implicit in the first two, the law of identity (that if a thing is A, then it is in fact A).

Answer 5

It is easily understood. I have a son who would deny the truth if it looked him square in the face because he can't understand it. Atheists do the same thing. What difference does it make? One day we will all know the truth won't we?

Answer 6

Julia,
he might be "intellectually smug and arrogant" but he's also 100% correct too!
And that is what bugs you the most. The fact that someone can look at your mythology with a critical eye based in fact and logic and dismiss it as the childish nonsense that it is.

Answer 7

So people who disagree with you are "not smart enough"?

Isn't that a bit intellectually smug and arrogant?

Can't you make your points and your arguments without resorting to calling Christians and other believers "stupid" and "delusional"?

If you must consistently resort to such personal attacks and name-calling, I can only conclude that it means your actual arguments are either weak or nonexistent.

Answer 8

One doesn't need a PhD in Microbiology to detect logical error. Considering your grammatical mistakes, which of us is more likely to be "not smart enough to understand"?

Answer 9

Exactly the same question can be asked of Christians or Islamists or any other belief. With the EXACT same answers.

Answer 10

I think it's easier to believe in something that doesn't exist, rather than facing the fact that once we die, there is nothing more ~ most people can't handle that truth.