Why do otherwise intelligent people believe in religion.?

Question

I believe in God. It's religion I question.

Answer 1

I don't believe in "religion". I believe and worship God because life does not make sense without a creator God because rules of nature exist, there must be a rule maker. Without a final arbitrator of right and wrong, we become our own arbitrator and people inherently justify any self serving action.

Worshipping God brings joy and peace to my life. Serving others brings joy. True joy, as opposed to transient event dependant happiness, is impossible without God. Because all life ends in death and to face death without God is pitiful.

Answer 2

Likely for the same reason otherwise intelligent people believe in Evolution, they use the brain God created for them to evaluate the evidence and form a conclusion.

Studies, like that done by the University of Michigan, and features in the Discovery Channel program, The Amazing Life of the Human Brain, shows just how amazing the human brain is.

Every second while awake, we are absorbing 40MBs of data per second. That’s 144 gigabytes per hour and about 2 terabytes per day. That’s a lot of data even for the largest computer. When we sleep at night, and only at night or under nighttime conditions, all that data is sorted and stored through the creation of synaptic connectors and biochemical bounds. The brain has enough volume to allow for the creation of these storage connectors to last over 10,000 years.

Without the need of a creator, what evolutionary pressure could cause the need for this much volume that would take that long to fill? Clearly, man was either created by God to live that long, or if evolve, once lived that long, and has since de-evolved to what we are today. Which do you think it is?

Evolution does take place, in that animals have evolved and humans have de-evolved since the time of the creation. Many divergent species are related, such as the Meerkat/Hyena and the Lion/House cat. A house cat can breed with a lion, I wonder if the same is possible the Hyena and Meerkat?

This is why I believe in God. I use the brain he gave me, and designed for me, to determine something beyond imagining.

Answer 3

Why do you say "otherwise intelligent"? they have taken the information that has been given them, including their own experiences, and made a decision based off of that information. Is that not what you did? Just because people don't come to the same conclusion as you did doesn't make them wrong. If that were the case there would be only one kind of everything man made in operation today, one kind of car, one kind of truck, one kind of plane for each social level, etc. At one point the whole world believed that the earth was flat, and then some people(probably "religious" men) discovered it was round. Could it be that these "otherwise intelligent" people have some info you don't or just cant process? also it might be a good Idea to loose some of your arrogance and open your mind.

Answer 4

If you define religion in broad terms such as belief in process of ongoing creation and that humans can enhance their own life experince and those of others by means driven by the emotions of love and practice of selflessness then there is no reason not to "believe in religion." I do not have to "believe" that I exsist in given moment to make the reality of the moment a truth. The ongoing process of creation is a truth . It is more a matter of personal attitude that determines if a given individual practices religion. I am grateful for my exsistence in the moment and my ability to creatively impact the moment. Faith in the end is a product of the joyof the beauty and complexity of ongoing creation.

Answer 5

An intelligent person does not "believe in religion." An intelligent person cannot believe in the description of what an intelligent person believes in. Be it God and Jesus, Fishing for Trout, or taking a Saturday night bath.

Put a trick question and get a technical answer.

Answer 6

How do you clarify issues to uneducated human beings? tell thoughts like you do to children, for sure. in case you'll locate any writings from previously 6000 years in the past perchance you grants us an answer to that through the undeniable fact that is our earliest record. seem at issues in a rational way and they make sense and do not assume that issues were a similar all those years lower back as they're in the present day. in america of a over 70% of schoolchildren do not trust that existence existed previously the web. Make of that what you'll.

Answer 7

They believe in a simple word with a title and when a person does that they are easily persuaded by the masses; a dangerous and stupid thing to do. A good example is the ever popular Prophet Muhammad was a pedophile (according to teminology today) I look at it this way he was a human, humans are not perfect; people wn't get anywhere worshipping another human because they will surely fall in front of your eyes.

Answer 8

Why do you insist that believing in God means someone is not intelligent? Does that mean that if anyone sees anything differently than you....they are not intelligent?
Hm. I would hope you don't think there is nothing you don't know? Ever consider you are not correct in every assumption you hold?

Answer 9

well that should tell you something..
if they are "otherwise intelligent"....maybe you are the one missing something.....

of course that may take some humility on your part to consider that a possiblity....

Answer 10

Because it makes them feel so good. Self rightousnes is a strong drug. I used to be addicted to it myself.