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- From: jmunch@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (John Munch)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.110847.104314@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:08:47 GMT
- Sender: jmunch@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (John Munch)
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- Dear Iikka Paavolainen,
- In article <1992Dec28.010237.15761@prime.mdata.fi> you write:
- >
- >1) You do agree that you used your intelligence in attacking the original ideas
- >
- >2) Apply this kind of cynicism to the Bible and Christianity
- >
- >3) Denial of the the statements in the Bible is due to intelligence.
- >
- None of this gets anywhere close to your original statement that atheists
- are more intelligent. You have shown that SD has used rationality to deny
- the bible, but you have failed to show that everyone who denies the bible
- used rationality. I am an intelligent atheist, but what lead me to atheism
- was my extreme fear of god. I was so scared of god that I tried to get as
- far away as possible. It wasn't until I linked up with a atheists'
- association that I saw that rationality could be used to deny the bible.
- Even if you *HAD* shown that everyone who denies the bible used rationality,
- you still would not have shown that all rational people deny the bible.
- There is no guarantee that a person with above average rationality will use
- it to deny the bible. In this country people are free to hold false beliefs,
- if they want to.
-
- I agree with you 100% from an emotional viewpoint. From my rational side,
- I see you as being very weak in rational thought, and I observe that you
- use arrogance to hide your weakness in rationality.
-
- SD has -->NOT<-- disagreed with your statement that atheists are more
- intelligent. I get the feeling that SD thinks christianity is stupid.
- All he wants is for you to get to this conclusion using strong logic
- or rationality. Ad hominem argument is fallacious logic.
- I want you to be right, and I think that SD wants you to be right too,
- but this doesn't make you right. Peace.
-
- -John David Munch
-