These people seem prone to exploitative and false arguments like "It's just a Theory!", they confuse Laws (enforceable legal and secular codes of conduct) with religious doctrines from ancient desert books (same word, different meaning), they completely don't comprehend the meaning of simple words, like *dead, death, meaning no longer alive*, not meaning *similar to life but with cool ghostly special effects and ice cream*, they misinterpret simple phrases in ancient, translated books, such as "The end is near" written 2,000 years ago doesn't mean the end is near now, it means they were WRONG.
Do you see a common thread here?
2007-05-01 08:39:30 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not learning, it's folllowing without learning.
2007-05-01 08:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
While I certainly sympathize with your obvious frustration, if this is also an honest question, I have a counter view that may apply here, which I learned in a psychology of religion course I took when I went to U.C. Davis. According to my teacher there, the intelligence quotient (IQ) that has historically guided individuals is an outmoded and outdated method for evaluating human intelligence. Instead, what he and his peers have been urging and relying on in the past decade and a half has been using a 'multiple intelligences' method for evaluating individuals. For example, a portion of the brain that accounts for functions of 'X' variety are evaluated independently, not cumulatively, from other functioning parts of the brain.
How does this apply? Well...
Now this is even more controversial, but my teacher and his peers have suggested that 'religious intelligence' is one of those evaluating factors, which accounts for the ability some have to experience and believe in spiritual/religious matters.
The counter view I'm implying here is that perhaps the religious (which doesn't include me) are not the ones who are deprived of certain mental skills. It's the rest of us.
Just a thought. I don't know either way.
2007-05-01 08:51:12 · answer #2 · answered by cwecksrun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you do seem to have a learning disability.A lot of people who are mentally challenged are not aware they are different, Just because you are currently incapable of seeing the truth before your eyes, doesn't mean it is false. It just means you don't under stand, and while it is true you are not alone it is true that you are a minority in believing there is no God. At least the rest of us know that much even if we do not agree on what He is or teaches. So we are still a step ahead of you guys.
As for the theory of brainwashing and/or lack of intelligence. How much intelligence does it take to see what works and what doesn't. Most of us were where you are now too, obviously something incredible happened that showed us we were wrong. Nothing is more stupid than a closed mind and heart. Lighten up. If you can't take it go somewhere else, an open exchange of beliefs is too much for you to handle, you should stick with people who agree with you.
2007-05-01 08:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Connie D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, this Christian (who got her Master's Degree in English with a straight A average, by the way) is smart enough not to keep on belaboring the same point like *some* atheists around here. Belitting Christians and Christianity is the common thread of all your posts that I've read so far.
One definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If you seriously believe that asking variations of the same question is going to change people's minds, then your grip on reality appears to be tenuous at best.
2007-05-01 08:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Ooh! Ooh! An A in English?
And that has WHAT to do with science? You need . . . what . . . nine hours of BASIC science for a degree? And you know about evolution from your meteorology class?
I got my degree in English too! AND anthropology! AND ethnic studies! AND Spanish! AND I'm working on biochem!
Just cuz you got a paper doesn't mean you're educated. It means you know how to follow instructions and parrot information.
Whooptee do.
2007-05-01 16:44:41 · answer #5 · answered by Songbird 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its A Piece of cake, A Piece of Crumb Cake... Love the Avatar !!!
Definitely Learning Disabilities: The Rainman would go far in Catechism Class !!!
2007-05-01 08:42:06 · answer #6 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess I need a little more tact, because I've been asking this same question all day and all I get is "You're ignorant!" and "You obviously have no understanding of the bible."
Maybe if I asked them nicely... Hello nice christian, did you know Herod was dead 4 years before Jesus was supposedly born? Doesn't that mean that the story of Herod trying to kill little baby Jesus is a gross inaccuracy?
No... that doesn't work either? Okay, back to trolling...
2007-05-01 08:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You know I kind of wanted to ask a queston regarding the education of most christians...
because i mean...anyone that learned anything during their higher education, if they had any, wouldnt ask such illogical questions.
for example :if we come from monkeys why are there still monkeys?
that question proves to me that they were sleeping during biology class, squeezed by to get an average joe degree, or simply did not attend college. on top of that proves to me that they have no common sense. because before i was atheist i would cringe at the stupidity of the question if someone asked it.
...*sigh
i really didnt mean to offend anyone but i bet if we experimented with christians and their smarts....they wouldnt come out on top..
2007-05-01 08:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hooey!! You seem to have a handle on something. I'm not sure what, though. Maybe its my dyslexia.
"The end", is near for us all: nobody knows when they will die. That will be the "end of the world" for each of us. We get to see our maker at that time - either as friend or judge.
2007-05-01 08:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by CJohn317 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dawkins (and others) seem to think that religion is a (-n unfortunate) by-product of some other behavior that had evolutionary benefit. I tend to agree with him.
2007-05-01 08:46:25 · answer #10 · answered by Peter D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
things get messed up when religion ATTEMPTS to teach other subjects that they shouldn't concern themselves in....but don't label all religions....not every religion is so..if u want an example to ease your doubt=Buddhism.but then again,like i've said before,guess this is because it's the least "religion-like" religion since it's more a philosophy..
2007-05-01 08:47:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋