When did your choice of faith, or lack thereof, become a measure of how intelligent you are?
It seems that around here the general feeling is that if you don't believe in god you are somehow less intelligent than those who do, and if you choose to believe in any form of religion, then you are a sheep with no discernable thougth patterns of yor own and your life has to be governed by a higher authority.
I'm just wondering what goes through your mind when you pass these judgements on others based on what they choose to believe.
2006-10-13 23:13:17 · 10 answers · asked by Tish P 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Servant Of God...I was merely asking why there are certain people on here who make the correlation between religion, or lack of religion and how intelligent you are. There are some posts on here that basically calll atheists thick because they don't believe, and vice versa. I didn't make the connection, others did it for me. I was just questioning it.
2006-10-13 23:50:54 · update #1
humans have a natural pack mentality. so if you believe in something different than the pack, youre considered a threat and should be destroyed. since weve supposedly evolved past wantonly killing anything different, we very often try to destroy in other ways, such as mental and emotional needs.
2006-10-13 23:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I do believe that those who follow religious dogma as a rule are people with no discernible thought patterns of their own,free will and religion are mutually exclusive. Christians can talk about free will all they want it doesn't make it so,if you read the scripture the choice is essentially slavery or death to put it in simple terms. I don't necessarily blame the follower or consider all of them bad people,that they will bring on themselves on an individual basis,but they are brainwashed sheep,it's an indoctrination. Kinda of like teaching your children that Santa is real but then nobody ever points out the flaws and that Santa is indeed not real. Besides even if on some off chance God is real we should still throw off the shackles of any organized faith,it has taken much more from this world than it's ever given back,the suffering that could have been avoided by the lack of all these religious dogmas man uses to justify his acts is almost immeasurable.
2006-10-13 23:26:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is annoying to see how judgemental people are. And though I really do not like to judge, label, condemn or generalise, sometimes I feel so tempted to judge back because of the way people phrase their questions; they do not seem to be questions, but mere attacks and insults.
Everyone is free to choose whatever course they take in life and they are responsible for their own choices and actions. We all have the right to be respected; those who chose not to believe do not to attack those who choose to have faith. And those who have faith should demonstrate their faith by showing tolerance and acceptance.
We do not have to fall in love with each other; we do not have to agree with each other, but we all have to ACCEPT, RESPECT and TOLERATE each other.
May Allah have mercy on us all.
2006-10-13 23:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's human nature. You can substitute political parties, genres of music, or nearly anything else in the place of religions and make the same sorts of generalizations about intelligence.
2006-10-13 23:33:42 · answer #4 · answered by Tommy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 7:1 tells us to not judge lest we be judged ourselves based on the judgment we use on others.
I am trying to figure out how you got from faith to intelligence, and where intelligence is used to pass judgment.
I see these as two separate issues, and to combine them is to create another belief entirely.
2006-10-13 23:47:02 · answer #5 · answered by Servant Of God 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been multiple studies that show correlations between religiosity and intelligence quotient. It's not to say that everyone who religious is an idiot and everyone who is an atheist is a genius... but there are statistics that show that people with lower intelligence tend to be more susceptible to religious indoctrination.
2006-10-14 03:39:48 · answer #6 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
since people have decided to place another person in the subhuman category for their faith/religion (atheism is a religion as well).
2006-10-14 00:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by atreadia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People usually follow a religion that agrees with their intelligence.
2006-10-13 23:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by robinallsup 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it shows intellegence. I think it shows how gullible you are. It shows your ability to think for yourself.
2006-10-13 23:35:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's not a measure of anything.
".........but thinking makes it so".
w. shakespeare
2006-10-13 23:48:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋