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- From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.115818.22733@prime.mdata.fi>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 11:58:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.072026.2803@nmsu.edu> sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe) writes:
- >In article <ofBEMFy00Uh_I2BY9m@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael Loomis <ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >>
- >> Though I agree with the general idea behind Mr/s. Paavolainen's
- >>post, that intelligence deters religious belief, I think that when a
- >>intelligent person is ensnared into a religion that they are most
- >>devout.
- >> Let me attempt to explain the mechanism that makes them devout.
- >>Let's consider christian believers since I am most familar with
- >>christianity. The Bible has much silliness and contradictions. The
- >>intelligent christian will have more ability to conjure up some way of
- >>making silly passages seem intelligent and some way of reconciling
- >>seeming contradictions than would a stupid christian. By the act of
- >>making the Bible make sense to himself, the intelligent christian has
- >>reenforced his own belief in the Bible as the truth. Thus, the
- >>intelligent christian has a greater stake in christianity than does the
- >>stupid christian.
- >> If my theory is right, then it has implication for atheists who
- >>argue with chirstians on this bboard or elsewhere. By poiniting out a
- >>contradiction in the Bible to the intelligent christian, we may simply
- >>be conditioning him to have greater faith in christianity. (Atheist
- >>should not forget that a clever mind can always find some way to justify
- >>even the most blatant of contradictions. This is called apologetics.)
- >>
- >>Michael Loomis
- >
- >Hey, don't you dare introduce these complications into Iikka's lovely
- >simple correlation!
-
- Loomis came with a very rational reply to the post, taking many different
- things into notice. You, on the other hand, are starting to look like a jester
- with all your ludicrous posts. Well, at least we have some clown to laugh to?
-
- >
- >SD
- >
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