Religion encourages you to be stupid?

Question

I hear christians all the time saying......It is not meant for us to understand. HE can do anything. It is the will of God.

Does this encourage the religious folk to simply stop asking questions? Whats the point in trying to understand/discover anything? Why even bother when regardless of the outcome/meaning/data/conclusion "God can do anything" anyway?!

Answer 1

I wouldn't say that religion encourages stupidity, but it certainly encourages you not to think beyond your limits. You can't argue or even have a discussion using the argument that religion doesn't make sense, when the group you're aiming the argument at happily agrees that its not supposed to make sense. Personally, I wouldn't be happy to accept that it wasn't meant for me to understand certain things. Especially when I'm the one whose immortal soul hangs in the balance here. Our brains -- whether you believe they evolved or were created -- are capable of many, many things. Why would god design us to be capable of such intelligence when we simply aren't meant to understand? It doesn't make sense! But then again, it isn't supposed to make sense ...

*Runs off, pulling hair out and screaming*

Answer 2

No, I don't think religion encourages people to be stupid.
Now, as for the hypothetical "what if" questions, they're nearly impossible to answer. And there are many situations in life that ARE hard to understand, especially with the fact that no matter how intelligent a person may be, they still won't be able to see the past, present and future of every person that has lived, is living, and will live, as well as all the POSSIBLE futures of every person that has lived, is living and will live.
"It's the will of God" is the short answer. The long answer is that we, as humans, are of finite mind. GOD, on the other hand, has sight that is limitless. But I still try not to use that answer for questions that those who are seeking ask. I try to actually SEE the answer, and put it in terms that people can understand. It's hard though. There are many things that I understand on an abstract level, but it's more difficult to express them in a more concrete level.

Answer 3

HOW CAN STUPID PEOPLE REPRESENT THE HIGHEST INTELLIGENCE?

I said to a religious person, I have memorized every verse to show that Noah was in the flood year 1,656 years after Adam.
The religious person said they had the holy spirit and did not need to know such stuff.
How many persons in religions support this religious person?
So I am thinking, it sure is stange that Moses had the holy spirit and he gave this to us, as he supports the highest intelligence. If Moses were here today and the whole bible pulled together, how would he summarize it with its time to show all major facts in the least ammount of space?
So do I conclude that religion supports stupidity or suports the highest intelligence?

Answer 4

Ordin: Ah ... yes; the ol' euphoric answer to God and the "what if" questions. As a Christian, I know some very intelligent Scientists, who are devout Christians. "Stupid" - not exactly!
"Religious" - no! ... "Spiritual Christians" - Absolutely !!! Remember; there are those who are being religious as to opposed to being spiritual and the outcome the two mind sets play on the devotee are ... well ... "God can do anything" versus "God has given Christians brains and the answer to the question presented is ..." !!!

Answer 5

We often say that about things that are out of our control, such as when good things happen to bad people. Still, knowledge and wisdom have always been treasured gifts in the religious community, so it actually encourages learning.

Answer 6

Not exactly; but a very intelligent piece of logic.
Stupid means lacking in fundamental intelligence--that is genetic; so religious rulers have nothing to say about it--although they have always sought out the less-intelligent for obvious reasons: it's easier to persuade them to stop thinking and obey orders blindly.
No what's at stake here is rather "ignorance"--"the state in general of refusing to do the hard work of thinking about any number of subjects or willfully closing one's mind to the scientific truth about them." Now this, I assert, is precisely what those practicing 'religio"--acting as annunciators of mystical whispered instructions from a categorically different (much better or much worse otherworld) to human minds want to have happen--that you refuse to think for yourself so you'll believe their made-up picture of another universe.

Of course, they don't want you to 'think'. They want you to accept their fantasized new version of what's real, give up this world for that next, give up reason for blind faith, and follow exact orders in a monastic community under their infallible leadership.

Look, if you believe their version of a "life to come" is right and categorically different, better or worse, then what they want you to do is quite reasonable. It's what you need to do.

The problem is, nowadays people claiming to be 'religious' but doing nothing at all about their supposed beliefs instead of quitting the world they say is "sinful, flawed, the wrong place for man", are staying around. They're being interviewed by dimwitted newsmen on issues, meddling in politics, preaching holy wars and becoming president, vice president, etc. That in my belief is insane conduct.

Yes, they want you not to think, not to be stupid. but if you're stupid, you're more likely to fall for their ideas--which don't work on earth at all. So if you're stupid, they love you even more. They've always preyed on the weak-minded, the gullible, those who want to believe in an infallible leader type, haven't they?

Answer 7

A religion should encourage us to develop our inner wisdom and insight, personally i don't believe in having confident in any religion should stop us asking question when we are in doubt, or challenge the teaching if it don't make sense to us.

for me, blindly believe in the 'will of god' do not encourage 'faith', it only make us more confuse, and it we are confuse, how are we going to develop our inner wisdom?

Answer 8

Yes, it's one of the historical objective of religion. To make sure that people don't question anything and don't want to change the world order. Domination of many by a few...

Answer 9

We can ask questions, we can acknowledge science and facts but when ppl ask stupid questions like What if Jesus never comes back? How are we to know, we just have faith and believe and put our trust in God...

Answer 10

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