Even intelligent people suffer from delusions

by baltar447 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • baltar447
    baltar447

    Warning, this is a highly agnostic/non-believer type thread, I'm not interested in debating believers sorry.

    Ok, so my wife has a friend through a meetup group, VERY nice, VERY generous, an MD. Very smart, well educated and then they started talking religion. This is when I started to lose faith in humanity. Turns out she's calvanist or something. She lost all credibility with me when she was discussing that what being "saved" REALLY means. "Saved from God's wrath!" OMG. I just said that I consider myself spiritually inclined but organized religion can take a long walk off a short pier as it does nothing but hold back humanity from our full potential.

    Just goes to show you that no matter how well educated someone is, they can still believe in delusions. Damn I need a drink...

  • cofty
    cofty

    I am certain that intelligence is no protection against irrational thinking. Even clever humans seem to be capable of keeping belief in fairy stories in a separate compartment.

    By the way Calvinism is an especially odious version of christianity.

  • sd-7
    sd-7

    So you don't believe God has a plan for you, Gaius?

    Six

    --sd-7

  • Flat_Accent
    Flat_Accent

    You just have to remember that atheists/agnostics are still a minority. There are plenty of intelligent people with spiritual beliefs, mainly because they don't hold those beliefs to as high a standard of scrutiny as other things in their life.

  • baltar447
    baltar447

    It's just discouraging that so many people let their lives be run by fear and superstition. I'm curious about spiritualality, but not fearful of things that I can't prove. Especially not of a petty vindictive diety.

  • baltar447
    baltar447

    sd-7, do you watch(or read the books) Game of Thrones?

    I find it interesting the parallels between the polytheism and monotheism of both shows (BSG and GoT). In both shows the monotheism or the "one true God" is worshipped by the bad guys.

  • Disillusioned Lost-Lamb
    Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

    There is a difference between being intelligent and being smart.

    You can be highly intelligent and stupid as hell at the same time.

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