2007-06-05 03:40:47 · 17 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Different experiences in life lead to different views of the world. Plenty of stupid atheists, plenty of intelligent theists...belief or lack of belief is not dependent on intellect.
2007-06-05 03:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by Armless Joe, Bipedal Foe 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't generalize about that. There are admittedly plenty of theists who are more educated and/or intellectual that I am. But I do feel somewhat superior to theists to attempt to prove their religious viewpoints by simply quoting the Bible, or by defaulting to saying things like "God says so, and God is perfect, so it must be so." You can't have any sort of objective discussion with someone who only sees the world subjectively.
2007-06-05 04:24:31 · answer #2 · answered by scottychop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To feel superior at anything would sound conceited, but there appears to be some correlation between intelligence and non-religiousity: 90% of the general population in US beleive in a personal god and afterlife; only 40% of those with a bachelor of science did so (from Scientific American, Sep 1999); and if you poll the US National Academy of Sciences, ie. the top scientists, the MAJORITY (76.7% in 1998) are outright atheists who believe that a god does not exist (from Nature)
There are exceptions, but we can guess why (eg. upbringing, culture, non-fundamentalist religious interpretations, etc)
2007-06-05 04:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by destroyallreligion 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do because I can make an intelligent argument and look at facts. But like all things in the world you get good and bad and I have known some Atheist that are dumber and a rock.
2007-06-05 03:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by John C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.... Joe Rogan (hilarious) once said: I'm dumb I know that but everyone I meet is dumber than I am.
But to answer your question, no. I know I'm not intellectually superior to Albert Einstein. However I do believe that 99.9999% of atheists are superior to funamentalists.
2007-06-05 03:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by BOB 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i won't be able to in stable experience of right and incorrect have faith in something that has no empirical info. . . i.e. the existence God OR non-existence of a god. i used to be an atheist, yet I now might desire to admit that i will purely be an agnostic, because of the fact i might desire to in no way declare to have any genuine info one way or the different. stupid Christians make me experience intellectually greater acceptable, as do stupid atheists. the rationalization that some theists sound loopy is they declare that adverse punishments look ahead to me after dying. Um, hi, i'm a stable individual. i will incredibly say that I cope with everybody the way i could prefer to be taken care of. permit's say there is an omniscient, all-powerful being available who sends our souls to a stable place or a foul place as quickly as we die. He could might desire to have a large ego to deliver a stable individual to a foul place because of the fact i might desire to in no way stumble on a reason to have faith in him by loss of info. Now, a acceptable being with that variety of potential could no longer in all risk be that shallow, surprising? So exceptionally lots, the two there is not any God, or there's a God and a variety of of alternative theists are incorrect approximately what could and does not piss him off. So a theist saying, "you're easily going to hell because of the fact you do not have faith" proves thier own stupidity. on the different hand, a theist saying, "there's a god, and as long as you attempt to be a stable individual, you would be rewarded after dying by using going to heaven," sounds smart sufficient to me.
2016-11-05 00:11:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I know a lot of very intelligent, highly educated theists.
2007-06-05 03:50:40 · answer #7 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, but I do feel that I am thnking with a clearer mind. There are some very intelligent theists, their minds are just fogged up with religion.
2007-06-05 03:55:19 · answer #8 · answered by Matt - 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I believe that theists were misled as children and are just scared that they will burn in the imaginary hell if they consider any other alternative. Just because they live their life in fear doesn't make them stupid.
2007-06-05 03:53:28 · answer #9 · answered by The Wolf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's probably more that I'm puzzled by the fact that so many intelligent people are theists.
To me, it's like standing in front of a tree, saying "See that tree?", and the theist saying "What tree?" while he's leaning on it.
2007-06-05 03:46:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋