Do you agree that religious people must have a mental age between 0 and 6, please read below?

Question

My reasoning for this is thus:
I realised that there was no 'god' when I was 7 years old. I was raised catholic and attended a catholic primary school. It was a tough realisation for a kid but I knew it to be the truth. I discovered the term 'atheist' when I was about 12 or 13, roughly around the same time as we were being taught the scientifically based evolutionary theory in school, but i don't like the term atheist because it means more, 'against god' than 'there is no god', so it implies some sort of association with 'god' or 'gods'.

Nah, I know I'm right. I KNOW. I'm not very often wrong about pretty much everything else, why should this be an exception.

Me I'd say you have the mental age of 3 if you want to sacrifice your life to being a lawyer, but that's your position.

Erm, no, I'm 22, so your little 'teenage' criticisms don't really work. Honestly, the things some people do and say when they know they are wrong.

Yes, my profile does say that I am angry, but it doesn't say that I'm bitter. In ecclesiastes it says that existance is meaningless, and in ezekiel it says I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man. and in matthew it says When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
So i can take a quote out of context and apply it to the meaning that I want to present too. Can we play again, this time with a different work of fiction?

Ohh, isn't it darling that the religious ones have gone along and put little thumbs up for the answers that mention bible passages.

here's one for you

http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/model2.html


it's a nice pretty picture of how small we are.

Answer 1

Religion is a mental illness. Not necessarily a particularly troublesome one, and most sufferers can lead relatively normal, healthy lives but a bit like having an invisible friend, or playing make believe as a child.

as we grow older (and hopefully wiser) we no longer need this 'linus blanket' of a pretend friend and behave more rationally, and don't need fables and morality tales to lead us to what is regarded as 'appropriate behaviour' - basically, not behaving like some selfish monster.

Unfortunately, some people suffer this affliction into adulthood, still having invisible friends and living in a fantasy world, sometimes at a detriment to others, hence they get put in the loony bin, for want of a better phrase. Religion is the same. some people just don't 'mature' and find their own way in the world, again, much to the detriment of others. Now, where's that strait jacket gone?

Answer 2

You are not going to listen no matter what I say, but I would like to try and explain how believing in God can truly make you a happy being. I understand that being a Catholic can sometimes make you feel guilty and thus put you off believing for ever. Thing is, that in all faiths ( I have tried a few) some doctrines can sound so out of place. It is up to the individual to search beneath and find the hidden truth. We are so busy listening to someone Else's views that we get lost.
Believing in God is personal and you have to find this for yourself, if of course you can be bothered in the first place. It also helps if you have a few good mentors on the way. If you have been taught by small minded bigots then this can put you off for life.
My last faith I tried was the Catholic faith, the Priest was so understanding and we had many a fine debate on all sorts of issues, He was such a lovely down to earth man and he helped me in so many ways understand certain questions that for many years had evaded me. He helped put me on my own individual path.
I have an open mind, I do healing work, I have a great sense of humour and I listen to other opinions and learn. I do not put people into boxes and condemn them, their point of view is important so why do others continually think that we Christians are robots with no room for intellectual debate.
Please do not judge us all the same.

Answer 3

Ah, so because you decided there was no God at the age of seven you believe you are 'so much' more grown up then us? What are you now? Fourteen, fifteen?

My parents are athiests, I decided there WAS a God, and He is my God when I was ten, got baptised at eleven and have been there ever since. Now I teach the sunday school and study the bible daily along with an atlas and concordance and I KNOW that it fits in with history, the stories work, the people fit in. So whats that conclusion, my wise one?

Edit; it's funny, in Job they say that people with no God are often very angry, bitter people, they find no satisfaction in anything... so are you really an angry person? You claim to be...?

Answer 4

Only a 3 year old would post such a petulant question and employ such childish reasoning. You would be amazed how many kids believe that everyones parents are the same as theirs because they are unable to reason beyond what they experience. Children this age often throw tantrums when they can't get their own way. Seems to me that you employ the same infantile method of reasoning, just because you don't believe in God and you clearly have a mental age of 3 you assume that everyone else has something wrong with them just because they don't agree with you. Grow up.

Answer 5

Hmmm For once I agree, sort of.

It was around 12 when I realized that it was all BS. Including Atheism. That all of it was just games created by the domesticated apes that we call humanity.

Nothing is true, Everything is permitted.
Everything is true, Nothing is forbidden.

And I had the handicap of going to a fundamentalist Xian school for 6 years...you know the drill, sex is bad, sex is evil, sex is a sin (then I realized, only if you're doing it right).

So, don't just eat a hamburger, eat the hell out of it!

This is a lie.

Answer 6

there is not any reliable analyze info of a correlation between bipolar affliction and "getting faith" interior the midsection years. A bipolar affliction is an affective affliction (e.g., substantial temper swings) and is not in many cases linked with a concept affliction or delusions until eventually one happens to be experiencing a manic state or intense melancholy (even then not inevitably). those with schizophrenia, schizo-affective affliction, and a few of you greater intense character issues (e.g., schizoid, borderline, schizotypal) might have a concept affliction, delusions, and auditory hallucinations. sometimes (yet not each and all of the time), their idiosyncratic ideals have reliable non secular institutions. the 1st "psychotic destroy" generally happens interior the overdue young human beings to early Nineteen Twenties. curiously, there's a physique of analyze which shows a reliable association between psychological well-being and a feeling of spirituality or faith. the real DSM IV "acid-try" is with reference to the outcomes. Does it inhibit or compromise social/vocational/interpersonal functioning in some significant way? If not, it would not be considered pathological. In different words, there is not something inherently pathological with reference to the impressive perception which you met an angel. the controversy to whether you and tens of millions of theistic "others" are deluding yourselves or not, will possibly never be thoroughly settled. it could be plenty greater effective to concentration on your point of functioning and not be too caught up in labels like "bipolar" that's usually over clinically determined and shall we not bypass overboard with the belief of "magical thinking". A perception in a vist from an angel isn't sufficient to qualify. (that's comming from an atheistic-leaning agnostic). Plus, all of us have some degree of magical thinking. reliable success!

Answer 7

I didn't figure out that all religion is crap until I was 30, so there you go.

(I think you are being too hard on people...and a little snotty: just because you are sooooooo bright, don't mean everyone else is an idiot)

Generally people learn as they get older -- the older they get the less they know. So, I'm 50 and don't know jack. That makes you...13?

:-)

Answer 8

No, I don't agree.

I am religious. I have an IQ of 141 and hold 5 college degrees.


IMO, There IS a God.

WOuld you agree that people who can't accept and respect those who hold different beliefs than they do about religion have a mental age of 2?

Only 2 year olds think thw whole world ought to revolve around what they think and what they want?


You're a prejudiced little thing, aren't you?

Your reasoning is that everyone ought to think as you do? 2 year old mentality.....

2 year olds also KNOW they are right about everything.....yes, your mental age is 2.

Answer 9

well i am a 24 year old law student. i don't think if i had the mentality of a 6 year old i would have not made it thus far.

your lack or education and ignorance just showed the world how much of a bigot you are.

you know nothing about me nor do you know anything else about any other religious person to even make such a heinous statement.

im 24 years old and i will always and forever have faith in God.

Answer 10

Not completely understanding your insinuations I feel only a slight delicacy to articulate. But I will confess to being a Christian. While we are discussing mental development the Bible says it is only a fool that says in his heart there is no God.