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- From: sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.193243.12153@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:32:43 GMT
- References: <ofBEMFy00Uh_I2BY9m@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec28.072026.2803@nmsu.edu> <1992Dec28.115818.22733@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec28.115818.22733@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >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?
-
- How was my first reply not rational? I just questioned how you came
- to your conclusions. Your replies have shown some very weak reasoning
- indeed.
-
- SD
-