Originally posted by WTFoverI do have two questions.
First, do you use those labels to describe those highly educated religious people?
I believe that "highly educated" and "religious" (in the context of any of the major religions) do not belong in the same sentence.
The bible was written by superstitious goat herders 2000 years ago, who thought the sun revolved around the earth, the planet was flat, a dome above
our heads was in fact the sky, and when it rained, angels were pouring water through the holes of this dome.
That's not to say they weren't ignorant in other areas -- if you were born with a disease or contracted a pathogen, then the devil had taken hold of
you and you were to be punished for being rejected by god.
They were unfathomably ignorant about almost every fact of natural science that most of us consider common knowledge today. They used that ignorance
to control people through myth and superstition, and later in their rosy history quashed all alternatives that challenged this superstition.
Christians were, and still are to this day, a bigoted group of ignorant cattle who are trained to think illogically in order to keep them faithful in
an illogical and absent deity, and to the pastors who take advantage of this shortcoming in their intelligence.
Second, if you consider yourself to be so enlightened and 'wise', as to not be fooled by the myths of religion, should you not follow the
advice of the last sentence of this paragraph from your own source?
But at the recent AEI lec-ture, journalist Ben Wattenberg asked him the same thing (if he believed in God). Kristol responded that "that is a
stupid question," and crisply restated his belief that religion
is essential for maintaining social discipline. A much younger (and perhaps less circumspect) Kristol asserted in a 1949 essay that in order to
prevent the social disarray that would occur if ordinary people lost their religious faith, "it would indeed become the duty of the wise publicly to
defend and support religion."
Source: www.reason.com...
I do not believe we need religion to control society. I think it has been used far too long, and works quite well. But I do not want to live a world
filled with people who force-feed superstition to their kids and vote based on ideological lies.
I certainly don't believe in god, neither should you. Neither do the republican "religious" right. They are using religion to win elections.
The religious right is being had by the republicans, and everybody knows it except them. I think it's absolutely laughable, and hopefully the next
catastrophe the befalls the united states hits those who are most devout the hardest.
