Is religion for the uneducated or weak-minded?

Question

Most people that I talk to whom are religious people don't even know what they are talking about. You ask a question, they either quote you a bunch of scriptures or refer you to someone else. The ones that do try to give you an educated answer on why they believe, sound as if they were brainwashed, cause all their answers seem to be the same.[Faith] I have faith in alot of things but that does'nt mean they are all correct. I think people just need to open their eyes and see the world for what it really is and quit killing people in the name of your God.

If you studied your school books as much as you study your bible, than you might see what I'm talking about!!!!!

Answer 1

No religion is the correct one, and all religions have got it wrong.

There are many major religions in the world, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, and so on. Within each major religion there can also be many minor religions. For example, within Christianity there is Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and so on. Within Islam there is Shiite, Sunni etc.

In summary there are many hundreds of different religions in the world all with their devoted believers and followers. Talk to any devout religious person and they will almost emphatically insist that their religion is the right one, it’s fact, and any non-believer is doomed.

Commonsense and logic would suggest that if there was any truthful or factual basis to religion, then only one of these religions could be correct, not all of them. However, in my view, it’s highly unlikely that any of these man-made religions bear any resemblance to fact or the truth, and are more likely to be the result of simplistic human intelligence looking for an escape from reality.

My studies and research shows that religious people are not exactly rocket scientists, they tend to be below average intelligence, and also have a tendency to be more violent than non-believers. In some cases, the more violent the person, the more religious they are. I suspect that the vast majority of religious people are well below average intelligence.

I wonder if trying to improve the intellectual standard of our global community would help remove the various religions from our culture, and thereby improve happiness and peace for humanity.

Answer 2

First of all keep in mind that there are all different kinds of people in the world and even the stupid ones or the less intellectual people are able to accept any religion they like to the extent they can understand it.

Also consider this analogy.

I have a friend who runs a small business and he's gone through about 10 different computer support companies everyone of them has turned out really not know what they are doing. Now just because the first 10 he's tried turned out not to be real computer techs is it reasonable to believe that all computer techs are wrong or even to think that everything those computer techs said they knew was wrong?

I don't think so, religious people are the same, anyone can claim to be a religious person but for many they really don't buy into as much as they might claim. However there are some who really believe and have thought it through have a concrete reasons ( beyond just faith) for their beliefs.

I'm one of them and I'm happy to prove to any one that a rational person can come to the rational conclusion the Christianity is real. Yes, I may have to read books written by people smarter then me and I don't claim to have considered every issues or consideration ( Christianity is complex) so I have to research things sometimes and that might include asking my pastor or someone else.

But I'm constantly testing and researching what I believe and up to this point it's come back with authenticity for me.

Answer 3

I find your question shallow, rude and insulting.

If your so intelegent why is it that you can't seem to find a way to state your question without having to resort to insults.

Religion is for anyone who chooses to believe. Some will be uneducated and or weak-minded. Others will be highly educated and strong minded.

But if you look at the general population how many people are highly educated and strong minded vs educated and average vs uneducated and weak minded. My guess is going to be that the highly educated group is going to be smaller.

So for any given faith the group of people who believe in that faith are also going to spread across a variety of ability levels, with the highly educated being the smaller group.

But are you really looking for answers with an open mind or just looking to badger people since you don't believe in the same thing they do?

Answer 4

It is true that many people do not know what they are talking about because they neither study their school books nor do they study the bible.
If they do not study their school books, they may be short of the knowledge useful in the real world. If they do not study their bibles they may be short of knowledge that may be useful in the real world and in the spiritual world. If anyone is killing in the name of God, they are NOT following the teachings of Jesus Christ, (who had awesome power to destroy but never used it against mankind or beasts.) If they are not following any kind of deity at all, they may still see the world in a distorted way and kill people for their own satisfation. People tend to justify whatever they do, especially if there is nothing in print to cause them to reconsider their motives and thereby deter violent, evil behavior. The answer to your question, therefore, is NO. Religion is for anyone regardless of educational or mental status, who is inclined to seek another source of wisdom and behavioral direction aside from his or her own emotions. It is said that a person who does not stand for "something" will fall for "anything".

Answer 5

The same goes for you. If you would study the Scripture as much as you claim with other books, you wouldn't ask these questions.

Religion makes no one uneducated or weak minded. My faith is only as strong as the object you know. The more you know it, the more faith can be placed in it.

If your car is sounding like it is going to break down, would you have faith to take it across state? No. Why? You know how the car works in its state. If it is working fine, you have faith in it, KNOWING the car is ready and able to make the trip.
How many people readily accept faith in the ability of the pilot when flying? Yet, you don't know the pilot. You just accept he can fly the plane.

Faith makes one wiser and stronger in their walk. Just some of us choose to have faith in God,, who some of us KNOW him well enough to trust Him in our daily lives.
I do have a degree. Religion didn't help me get it. I knew my ability. I had faith I would finish...and I did.

Answer 6

Not at all. Religion is simply a person's personal relationship with God. Now what you may be talking about is Organized religion which is a whole different animal. Organized religions tend to become dogmatized and ritualized to the point where it is no longer about a relationship with God, but a relationship with the church.

People in general tend to be lazy and look for the easiest way to do things. For religion, this leads to people simply parroting what they hear and read rather than studying and figuring out what it actually means. This could lead an observer to the impression that religionists are uneducated or weak-minded, but that is not necessarily the case.

Faith is a necessary component in religion. There is no way to get around that. God designed things so that it would at some point require faith to believe in him. However, that does not have to be a blind faith. It can be an informed faith. There are many sources of knowledge about God in the world. Christians would have you believe that the Christian Bible is the sole authority on God in the world, but this is simply not the case. God gave us revelations for thousands of years before Christianity and he continues to do so up to the present time. As we grow in our understanding of ourselves and of the universe which surrounds us, we grow in capacity to understand God. This requires that periodically God send us updated revelation which corresponds to our new level of ability to understand. Minor revelations occur all the time through various means, but occasionally he sends us a major or epochal revelation. The fouth epochal revelation came to us in the person of Jesus. The fifth came to us in 1955 in the form of a book - the Urantia Book.

This book combines science, philosophy and religion in an amazingly integrated tapestry. It provides the most logical and comprehensive picture of God that I have ever encountered. Written in modern english (as of the time of its reception), it speaks to us in language we can understand and speaks to our current level of intelligence. You don't get "God said 'Let there be light'", you get a more detailed picture of the processes that went into creation and evolution. You also get an excellent philosophical portrayal of the nature of God, a complete historical picture of our planet, and the complete narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.

Take a look at the Foreword - which most people find to be one of the most difficult portions of the book - and you can see that this revelation presents a picture of God that is neither uneducated nor weak-minded.

Answer 7

Think about it for a minute:
What do you believe, if you do not believe in God then you believe in evolution so then you have to have faith to believe evolution because you never saw anything evolve or scientist find the missing link. Nothing has ever been found that was in the process of mutating, everything found was fully form in whatever species they were and the evidence climbs.
If you believe in God then you would realize that all through the Bible God has a people and they have a religion.
There is enough evidence out there to believe in God and there is enough to not believe in it. But if you did your homework well you would realize that both take faith.

Answer 8

I think there are very uneducating religous folks...but there are also very educated religious folks. One of my zoology professors is a pretty religous person himself and is very knowledgable and always questions and explores his thoughts on different issues.

There are uneducated and educated religous people, just as there are uneducated and educated non-religous people...I don't think there is very much of a correlation between being non-educated and religous.

Lets first get it through that I'm non-religous, but I don't have anything against religion and think it is a positive aspect in many peoples lives.

And with that said I'd like to know what you mean by uneducated. Would you consider a priest who has studied religion all their lives uneducated?? I know I wouldn't, that person is obviously very well taught on religion. Just as I am a science freak and am very well educated in science...but not as much in..say...literature. I think we as humans are all educated and well versed in different aspects of life...just because someone is religous and has a different point of view than you may not mean they are uneducated. And you certainly have the right to disagree with them, I disagree with a lot that religous people believe...but I wouldn't call all of them uneducated.

Answer 9

Who is killing who in the name of God? Actually you need to be educated and strong minded to understand religion and to accept it and to have faith in things. It is those who don't believe that are weak and uneducated because they have to see to believe and can't just go on things that have happened to them and faith and knowing without a doubt God is real because he has proved it over and over again to those who will believe. If you have to have proof to believe then your mind is not strong -

Answer 10

Hundreds of religions with thousands of denominations all believe that theirs is right. Religion was often a law of old....or a way of saying 'gosh, I don't know.....my beliefs will ease my mind.' People are totally neurotic and fearful, it is what has helped us evolve to this point. We are at a unique period in time where fact is more than superstition and our intelligence outweighs 'stories'...OK maybe we are just about to hit this milestone. Religion is just fiction of the old, only it is believed by the new because of our fathers. Where we have religion, we have mob mentality and intolerance to others. Scary!!!