It is common knowledge that religious people are less intelligent than those who aren’t religious. Religious people blindly follow what they are told by their holy book and or church.
countless studies prove time and again that that dumb people are attracted to religions.
I know the discussion goes back and forth with what amounts to pretty meaningless bickering about the interpretation of this or that text. Who created god? Would a loving god send billions of people to hell? Or for that matter why would god create a person destined for hell in the first place? My god is the true god simply because i believe it to be so! If god created all things as you religious freaks claim, how come he created evil? How stupid are you when you continue believing, when what you believe in has been proved wrong? Why do you want to frustrate and mislead your children? Why does this holy book contradict itself on virtually every page? Why do religious people deny the claims of any other god but their own? some dictator in the past was an atheist. A child survived its a miracle! What about the other 1 million children that died today? Bla, bla, bla, etc, etc, etc. its never ending.
Believing in religion is the clearest proclamation anyone can make that they are a complete moron.
Lets take a second to let this sink inn, since religious people obviously are severely mentally challenged, how schould we treat them? schould we classify them as mentally handicapped? give them special education in childhood etc Or schould we treat them with the utmost disrespect, scorn them like the infectious festering cancer that they are?
I say we schould disrespect them, without their faith many of the atrocities current and in history, would not have happened.
for example the war in Afghanistan and Iraq would never happen without religion . No one kills other human beings as joyfully and easily as religious people, suicide bombers, the American electorate, school and church killings, the list of stupidity or maybe i schould say madness fully anchored in religious belief is virtually endless.
Secondly people can free themselves from religion, and by pestering them and making life as a religious nut as hard as possible more people will free themselves since it wont be lucrative to cling to moronic ancient superstitions anymore.
Just today i had the joy of turning down an religious nut as an applicant for a job, he had put on his CV that he was a christian.
I will harass any religious person i meet to make his life as a moron problematic, so that they can free themselves. those i have helped so far are eternally grateful.
September 4, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
Hey guy, I agree with what you say, religious people are stupid, but can you do us all a favor and not make atheists look stupid as well, by spelling the word should ’schould’. C’mon, guy that’s like not knowing how to spell the word ‘the’. You need someone to call you a dumbass, so you will learn next time. Dumbass.
September 4, 2009 at 7:07 pm |
Oh, Bruno..,
I don’t think intelligence is measured by the ability to type, as many of us more intelligent responders will miss a typo or two..; that, in and of itself, does not exactly prove or disprove one’s “dumbasss-edness”. It may simply prove the typist is very busy!
July 26, 2009 at 11:19 pm |
Great article, could not have said it better myself, i come from a ultra religious jewish family, unfortunatly.
I was brainwashed, they are fucking evil people.
June 17, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
EMP there are a few contradictions between your reply to JHC and your original post. It appears you have grown in the last year. Religion is not as big a problem as Intolerance.
Your original post was steaming with intolerance. As M said (I assume referring to original post), your lever of Intolerance was dangerously close to what you speak out against.
The values in most religions are good. The interpretation of the rest is usually distorted to suit an extremist group.
I we should all believe in Good (not God).
June 17, 2009 at 12:47 pm |
I admit i some time put things on the edge to illustrate my point. And more than once i have probably ventured over the line of argument to be directly insulting.
But i am in no way close minded or intolerant, in person.
I often find, i have to be quite provocative to get religious people to think at all. I have long since lost count of how many times i have pointed out that quoting ancient fiction isnt an argument for anything. At least not when you are talking to me.
I have found that to break through the heavy mind mist of a religious person you have to put things on the edge. You have to rubb their face in it to get any kind of result.
I wish it wasnt so but sadly it is..
And i totally agree be good for goodness sake, not because you think some vengeful sky monster will punish you after your dead.
June 17, 2009 at 11:06 am |
Jesus Christ or whoever you are ,
I do agree with you on some points but beg to differ on some other points . There is no harm in believing in religion provided you keep it to yourself and don’t try to force it upon anyone else . I also agree that people should not withhold healthcare from their children in the name of some religious beliefs . However, if people believe that God has a plan for them , it will not be dangerous provided they stick to the commandments . The trouble begins when there arises a conflict between these two . The commandments and the belief that he has a plan for you .
About EMP . Well , he displays hatred towards any religious person . Don’t know if he hates religious people but it appears he does . He fails to understand that he is displaying as much hatred as a Muslim fundamentalist .
June 17, 2009 at 12:06 pm |
M
just a few comments.
I dont hate religious people, i have religious friends.
I can usually find a lot of reasons to love and respect almost everyone i meet. Their religious conviction is not one of them.
I hate religion.
I feel pity for people who fall into its trap, that doesn’t mean this is the only quality that makes up a human being. And its not the only quality i see when i interact with them.
Its not like i can divide all the worlds people into 2 simple categories: religious and not religious.
This is in fact what religion tries to do, the “faithful” (whatever cult that is) and everyone outside the “faithful” (whatever cult that is).
People are a lot more, and i have helped a lot of people cast of their religious shackles. If only religion was as tolerant maybe i wouldn’t hate it?
Religion = intolerance
Intolerance to everyone that doesn’t believe the same fairytale, intolerance of criticism, intolerance of diversity, intolerance of sexual preference, intolerance for medical treatment of children, intolerance of culture, etc, etc, etc, ad infinity.
June 16, 2009 at 1:15 pm |
First off I am not religious. I am agnostic.
If god was good and wanted us to stay on track (like by giving us the 10 Commandments), there is a simple solution for him.
he would simply appear in the sky, on day, for all to see (and for all to understand) and state, I am watching you. Start helping fellow men and stop all war. Or you shall suffer for eternity when you die. He would do that, I would believe (and probably start to behave much much better)
BUT, I am very grateful that the so called “stupid people” believe in God. It keeps many of those gun totting / bible thumping morons from killing everyone.
The one true thing that is important in religions is the attempt to keep people honest and kind. For that I think religion is good. But to think God has a plan for you and put your faith in his plan is incredibly dangerous and stupid. Even if he does exist, he clearly does not have time to take care of anyone on this planet (it is incredibly vain to think that someone that might have created billions of life forms in the universe would care more about us than the Chicken I just had for dinner! Or the Cow I had for lunch!)
So please don’t stop believing in religions but please, don’t withhold health care from you child in the name of some silly religious beliefs.
And to the original poster, you display disdain and anger towards others that some religious values would curb. To begrudge a “handicapped” person because of their beliefs is like being angry and punishing a child for believing in the Easter bunny. Now if the child believes he can fly that is another story… But anger should be replaced by education…
June 8, 2009 at 8:26 am |
Muzolf,
Sure , I do not know much about your country as you do . I would have to be arrogant to base my opinion on just one visit to Budapest.
I have heard that many Hungarians are xenophobes though I never actually faced any of it . I did get some stares even when I was with my Bulgarian white female friend and my Bulgarian white male friend but I think that is because I am brown .
I never had to really interact with any of the Hungarians on my own except for money changing etc etc because my Bulgarian male friend took good care of us .
However, the ones I interacted with seemed nice . Was it because I was mainly at the touristic spots or was it because I was in Budapest ?
I do not know but I did see that overall , people seemed to have a better standard of living than say many Indians in India though I know for sure , an educated well to do guy in India like me could have a better life in India than a normal person in Hungary but I am talking about the masses. Maybe, you are going down but maybe it is just a phase.
June 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm |
Matt, what realy matters is not where you stand now, but where you are going.
You can say whatever you whant, as far as i see, India is going forward. You might be ten feet under, but your slowly crawling up.
We are going down. Live standards have been dropping in freefall since the collapse of the eastern block, ecenomically, we have fallen behind all of our neighbors whom we used to look down in that regard.
Socially… i wont even go into details. That we have one of the highes suicide rates in europe, we are seen as unfriendly xenophobes, and that we are constantly at eachothers throats, should say it all.