What do you think of this statement "religion is for the little people, not the superior minded people"

Question

John Adams

Answer 1

It is 100% correct and true. Religion exists for the weak minded, so that the rich and powerful can easily make the weak minded follow and obey. Another wise man said it differently but just as accurately, "Religion is the opiate [drug] of the masses."

Answer 2

Nicholas Copernicus

Sir Fancis Bacon

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Rene Descartes

Isaac Newton

Robert Boyle

Michael Faraday

Gregor Mendel

William Thomson Kelvin

Max Planck

Albert Einstein

George Washington Carver

Blaise Pascal

Samuel Adams

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

Sam Walton (Founder of Wal-Mart)

T.S. Eliot

both Presidents Bush

Jimmy Carter

Abraham Lincoln

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Samuel Morse

Wright brothers

J.R.R. Tolkein

Robert E. Lee


ALL MEN OF FAITH

"little people?" i think not.

Answer 3

Now, that is strange. On another website, I found these quotes attributed to Mr. Adams:

"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited.... What a utopia, what a paradise would this region be." - John Adams

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

Maybe it was a different Adams?
Who is your guy? (*da-da-da-dum...click click*)

--One of the Little People

Answer 4

This statement is foolishness at its finest. John Adams obviously thought he was smarter than God and everyone who believed in Him. He found out the truth after he left this life.

Answer 5

Those who think they're clever enough to get by without God/a god (which is a different thing to religion - I believe in God, go to church, try my hardest to live for and with God, but I try not to get too religious about it) won't accept their need for Him/one.

The question then becomes one of whether those who think they can make without God can, and I know what my experience tells me: a great resounding NO.

Therefore belief in God is not just for 'the little people' - it is, however, 'the little people' who accept it more easily (as Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" [Matthew 5:2], and their are many more verses in the Bible to back this up, I couldn't find any quickly now but I know Psalms are full of statements about God's acceptance of the righteous who turn to Him and judgment of the 'wise' who think they know better)

Answer 6

I like this one as well...

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." —John Adams

Answer 7

Although i think man invented religion to explain what he could not then explain and since then the church has used it as a method of population control, I cannot agree with your statement as it smacks of arrogant superiority.

Religion is opium of the masses, people with OPEN minds not not need religion as they have answers to hand not slaves to dogma as those with closed minds (i.e. evangelical religious people).

the majority are somewhere in between

Answer 8

Apparently John Adams thought he was more "superior minded" than God. I bet he regrets saying that, now that he's dead!

Answer 9

The greatest scientific minds of all time believed in God.
Einstein, Hawkings, Asimov, Teller, Newton and others and all the way back to the beginning of written history, the ancient ones also believed in God or gods.

Answer 10

So i take it that your putting yourself in the 'little people' group because you certainly aren't superior. Jesus came for the least and not the greatest. So religion I don't really know. Jesus on the other hand defiantly.