Religious Discrimination in North Carolina

My feeling on general idiocy is this:

If you can look around at the world around us and come to the conclusion that most people are not idiots, then you are one of the idiots.

Darth Marsden interpreted what I said correctly.

Beldaran wrote:My feeling on general idiocy is this:

If you can look around at the world around us and come to the conclusion that most people are not idiots, then you are one of the idiots.

Darth Marsden interpreted what I said correctly.

Pretty much you need to put that shit as a disclaimer before you ever post anything, because basically I agree with you 100%, I just like arguing the other side, and I rarely get to do that in Oklahoma.

Pretty much you need to put that shit as a disclaimer before you ever post anything, because basically I agree with you 100%, I just like arguing the other side, and I rarely get to do that in Oklahoma.

Ditto.

Beldaran wrote:I don't think all people who have a religion are idiots. I pointed out that Isaac Newton believed in god. I think all people who have religion are infected with a disease that does not change their intelligence in anyway, but rather allows them to accept spurious notions which can modify their behavior and cause them to behave like an idiot. Also, I think religion is idiotic.

Sir Issac Newton beleived in a god. But then again, so did anyone else back then, and NOT beleiving in a god was probably quite dangerous to your continued existance on the planet. There are plenty of other famous scientists, especailly in recent centuries, who rejected arguments from religious institutions or refered to God from a Deist point of view, or even simply metaphorically (Einstien in particular), and those are probably the closest you can get to 'atheism' in their respective time periods.

I disagree with Bel's point about 90% of people being idiots. However, I generally find that most of the "Christians" I meet in every day to day life are simply going through the motions, maybe only occationally go to church, and simply haven't given it much thought because it was what they were brought up on and they don't really feel like moving out of their comfort zone of being assured an afterlife. In another couple of centuries, I presume these same people will probably consider themselves atheists for the similar reasons.

AlexMax wrote:I disagree with Bel's point about 90% of people being idiots. However, I generally find that most of the "Christians" I meet in every day to day life are simply going through the motions, maybe only occationally go to church, and simply haven't given it much thought because it was what they were brought up on and they don't really feel like moving out of their comfort zone of being assured an afterlife. In another couple of centuries, I presume these same people will probably consider themselves atheists for the similar reasons.

And I think it lends credibility to my theory that most people are idiots.

AlexMax wrote:I disagree with Bel's point about 90% of people being idiots. However, I generally find that most of the "Christians" I meet in every day to day life are simply going through the motions, maybe only occationally go to church, and simply haven't given it much thought because it was what they were brought up on and they don't really feel like moving out of their comfort zone of being assured an afterlife. In another couple of centuries, I presume these same people will probably consider themselves atheists for the similar reasons.

Yes, but these people that discard their religion, for the obvious idiocies they come to realize, quickly and easily conform to another practice or mentality equally as idiotic. Thus I must support the theory of Major Idiocy.. sorry The majority of the world are idiots.