Should we convert to a religion because smart people were belivers, or are these just silly logic errors?

Question

We read from time to time that for example, Einstien believed in a creator.

So I should believe what Einstien beileves because he was smarter than me?

Now, not to be mean or spiteful, but wasn't Einstien jewish and as such, not a Christian?

Why are all the CHristians who aren't as smart as Einstien not jewish?

Silly logic errors, someone has to point them out, minus well be me.

Answer 1

You religion should be based on what you believe not what anyone else believes.
Funny that is the same argument we are given for evolution.That we should believe because smarter men believe.When the only part of evolution that is fact is that creatures adapt.Not that they change into other creatures.

Answer 2

How smart do you think you are? And the conclusions in which you base your beliefs(foundations) where do they come from? Have you exhausted all sources of research in favor and against what you believe? Or are you just a fanatic, decided you would take a position with couple of ideas taken from other minds and have set your tent forever? What's your position in life, what's your number one priority? Living to come against Christians doesn't seem even a bit smart to me, and seems you spend an aweful amount of your precious time just doing that. Maybe your just a young teen (rebelious bunch sometimes) and this is just a stage, you might be the next Billy Graham! Who knows?!! Look at Paul, killing christians then writing 3/4 of the New Testament! That's what happens when you get exposed to the truth for a while even if it's against it! God Bless you. You would be a great asset to the kingdom of God!!! I pray what happened to Paul would happen to you in Jesus name. (And the church says: Amen)

Answer 3

Jeez- You are going to tax my pea little brain and I am NO Einstein, but here goes...
Logic, function and knee-jerk reactions are all apart of your brain without exception. Why someone can find logic in one thing and not another is well, let's call it... free will (for grins) this part of the brain is what allows you to screw-up and then forgive yourself. So with all these pieces of the brain working they will sometime work together and other times not...For example Einstein may have believed in creationism but I would say it was more likely to be indoctrination as opposed to real logic (see knee-jerk) also given that he may not have had all the facts, we have found out alot more about evolution since his demise.
Oh and I really think he just used Judaism to wear the little beanie and cover his bald spot...
Whew! My tiny brain hurts!

Answer 4

"Dear Mr. Raner:

I have received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. Your counter-arguments seem to me very correct and could hardly be better formulated. It is always misleading to use anthropomorphical concepts in dealing with things outside the human sphere--childish analogies. We have to admire in humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of the world--as far as we can grasp it. And that is all. With best wishes, yours sincerely, Albert Einstein." (letter to Guy H. Raner, Jr., dated July 2, 1945)

Einstien is a perfect example of how Christianity has always tried to revise history to it's benefit no matter how blatant of a lie needs to be told! As the letter above indicates, Albert was getting very tired of Christians lying about his actual philosophy.

Answer 5

I believe in God because I experienced God.

If people says only idiot believe in creation, that that will include Einstien.

Evolution is for those with strong imaginative. Not neccessary the smart.

With so many missing link, they still insist that the evolution is real.

So, that silly stupid logic of Einstien also believe in God, actually is for the silly people who claim that only fools believe in creation.

I hope you understand my foolishness.

Answer 6

Let's distinguish two things first: theism, and adherence to a particular religion. That'll give us two distinct answers to your question.

No one should be a theist solely on the basis of someone else's opinion. We rightly value the opinions of people we have reason to trust, either because of personal acquaintance with them, or because of their reputation. Nevertheless, no human being is free from the propensity to err or to make judgments clouded by ignorance or prejudice. So even though authority, in the sense of recognized competence, is legitimate, it can never by itself be the clincher in our attempt to discern the truth. Only one person can do that for us: ourselves. Whether we're as intelligent as the authority in question is ultimately irrelevant, and it's surely a specious argument to say that someone should be a theist (or an atheist) because there were intelligent theists (or atheists). I am a theist because I am satisfied, after a great deal of reflection, that theism is the most adequate, illuminating, and satisfying worldview available to me.

As far as adherence to a particular historical religion goes, most people either remain in the faith of their childhood and their culture, or they convert to a religion which attracts them, for one reason or another. I've experienced both, in a way: I was raised as a Christian, became an atheist, a Buddhist, and a Muslim, and then rediscovered Christianity in a much more conscious and reflective way. So I can speak a bit to the conversion experience. It's not a matter of being overawed by anyone's intelligence; it's a matter of one's heart being gripped by something beautiful one perceives in the faith one has encountered. The difficulty is that most religions portray themselves monolithically and demand the submission of personal judgment to the "official" tenets of the faith. Any freethinker who is drawn to a religion by the beautiful things in it will have to struggle with the extent to which he or she openly expresses dissent from orthodoxy. Fortunately, in every religion, there are more or less "open" groups: Sufis in Islam, Reconstructionists and some Hasidim in Judaism, liberals of various stripes in Christianity. So even a freethinker can usually find a religious "home" if they're willing to look for it. But the primary motivation should always be deeply personal, not prompted by slavish submission to some outward authority.

The fact that there are brilliant people of every religion and of no religion tells me that the truth is a matter of something deeper than outward membership in some social group or other. That's why I can't make any blanket condemnations of religious or nonreligious groups. What I can do is engage in a discerning dialogue where I try to ask probing questions about the presuppositions people have, and about the consequences of their beliefs. And naturally, in a dialogue, I invite the same from others.

Answer 7

You shouldn't believe anything because someone else does or did believe it. Everyone should research for themselves.

Can you honestly look around you and think this was all some random accident? Design demands a creator.

I like your questions by the way. It makes dead Christians think.

Answer 8

Beware Lucifer's greatest deception; not from the "tree of knowledge", but from the "tree of ignorance". It was the fruit from the tree of ignorance that all other sin stems. A man can be smart but people are ignorant, we see it everyday, in politics, war, traffic, at work. If people would devote them selves to true unbiased research and selfless education.... well Lucifer doesn't want that.

Answer 9

There are a number of logic errors in your statement as well.
If a drunk man says the sky is blue - is he wrong because he's drunk?

If a brilliant man says he was born in a pocketbook - was he?

Logic stands on facts and evidence. Not on the people who report them.

Answer 10

This is the argument atheists make all the time.

They call themselves "brights" and make pompous declarations of superiority, and will sometimes also namedrop Einstein and Hawking (neither of whom ever self-described in terms a positive atheist would be happy with.)

Proclaiming oneself to be smarter does not make it so, and switching religious (or areligious) affiliations has no impact on a person's intelligence. You can't make yourself smarter by becoming a Jew as Einstein was, and I can't make myself as intelligent as you are by becoming an atheist. :-)