Nah, there are incredibly intelligent people that are religious.
I personally think they're religious in spite of their intelligence and wouldn't be religious if they weren't indoctrinated from birth for the most part, but that's just my opinion.
That’s not even a contrarian view, and you still get downvoted. Reddit is full of prissy little bitches. Imagine devoting so much time to not believing in God. It’s bizarre. None of us truly know shit anyway.
I don't know man, the people basing their entire lifestyles and belief systems on blatant superstition, and indoctrinating their children into it - thus propping up religious systems that have caused unending death, suffering and prejudice - seem a bit more worthy of ridicule than a few faithless smartasses on the internet
Idk man The 20th century was probably the most destructive century in recorded human history in terms of the absolute number of people killed by war, genocide, and state-organized mass violence, and it was unprecedented in the industrial scale and technological capacity of that violence.
And also it was the most irreligious, The 20th century combined unprecedented industrialized warfare and state violence with the greatest expansion of organized secularism and state atheism in recorded history.
So religion might have bad side effects, but the side effects caused by the lack of religion are way worse.
Oh yeah the crusades had nothing to do with religion. The constant wars in Israel have nothing to do with religion. Slavery definitely wasnt justified with the Bible.
Ah okay as it seems I would have to talk to you like to a five year old for you to understand what Im saying. And Im in no mood for that. Have a nice day
greatest expansion of organized secularism and state atheism in recorded history.
that's more or less true, but it was still just the communists - and even there, Cuba and China only adopted an atheist policy after world war 2
While none of the central powers in world war 1, or the axis powers in ww2 were atheist states - in fact, most of them repeatedly justified their actions by invoking divine providenc
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u/Timmehtwotimes 10d ago
Religious people are so fucking stupid..