Why do smart and educated people mostly tend to be non religious?
>>18117151>whybecause they are full of themselves
>>18117291I would think an atheist has a better shot at heaven than a credodemon.
>>18117151In their defense, modern day christianity is white suicide due to the many heretical changes to doctrine made in the last several centuries.
>>18117305The first convert in Acts is an Ethiopian. Saint Augustine said that racism is bad. Christianity has always been against racism anon.
>>18117309Ah yes, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia have always been at war. Who would dare suggest otherwise?
>>18117294There are many clerics that actually do think this, skepticism isn't a sin, in fact it's basically in opposition to idolatry.
>>18117305>>18117309People daring to read their Bibles has always been the source of heresy.
>>18117151Because they have control of the institutions? Go back a hundred years or so and it was the opposite but you wouldn't be calling them smart lol. It'll change again eventually also as it always does
>>18117305White Supremacy wasn't a thing until the Colonial era
>>18117336>Go back a hundred years or so and it was the oppositeProof?
>>18117151The US isn't allowed to promote an official state religion so people who are organs of state ideology have to pretend their worldview is all based on pure reason when really they're just half baked christians whose ideology makes no sense because their belief in universal human equality isn't based on us all being made in god's image or whatever but instead on falsifying scientific facts about human genetics and cognitive abilities
>>18117373>The US isn't allowed to promote an official state religionCorrect>so people who are organs of state ideology have to pretend their worldview is all based on pure reasonIncorrectIndividuals within the government are allowed to express their personal belief and have never at any point had any issues doing so
>>18117151Because education and subsequent intellectual achievement coincide with wealth. And wealthy people tend to be less religious as they can afford distraction from spiritual and existential questions.
>>18117380We have an entire state controlled education system from K to post doc where you're basically not allowed to promote "religion" but you can promote insane ideas like sex/gender distinction and universal racial equality as long as you don't say God has anything to do with it.
>>18117151It is mostly a fashion thing.In America, professors of Medicine tend to be very left-wing. In my country, they are very right-wing.Like, if you tell them the "you can be healthy at any size" thing they will rudely tell you to start dreaming and to lose some weight. And they are very much not into gender ideology and lobbied for laws against some of that stuff.
>>18117151Most intelligent people are midwits. Religiosity is an inverted bellcurve. That's why religious people have always been both the trailblazers and the reactionaries.
>>18117151Probably because religions usually expect you to accept a bunch of contradictory bullshit written by iron age scribes for propaganda purposes. Obviously you don't require iron age legalism and mythological etiologies to be religious, but those people have somewhat soured the notion.
>>18117441Fuck off with this New Atheist midwit nonsense.Neothomism is very logical and consistent. Heck, some liberal types actually disliked it because of this.
Wernher Von Braun went to shrine of Apollo for his blessings before launch of Moon Rocket. He was the greatest modern scientist ever imo and he believed in God.What studies like these cite are midwit "scientists" like Neil Degrasse Tyson, not people of caliber on Wernher Von Braun. Most top scientists are very religious.
>>18117459>New AtheistIf you read my post you'll notice at no point do I suggest that I'm an atheist. Just that religions tend to be idiotic nonsense.
>>18117673>Just that religions tend to be idiotic nonsense.yes Abrahamic religions are idiotic nonsense, doesnt mean all other religions are.
>>18117404> where you're basically not allowed to promote "religion"No we don't. The last person to head the Oklahoma Department of Education mandates Bibles in the classroom, and after his recent departure there were teachers and school faculty all over the state cheering that he was finally gone and his policies were quickly reversed. It's not that they aren't allowed to promote religion on a legal level, it's that nobody with a brain wants religion in the classroom. Faith and facts are mutually exclusive things, I'm sorry this hurts your feelings anon.
>>18117659>shrine of ApolloReally? I didn't know he was a pagan.These space nazis tended to believe some cooky stuff huh
>>18117659>>18117713That was a more symbolic thing, because it was the Apollo Program. A better example would be the Crew of Apollo 8 reading from the Book of Genesis while on live broadcast in orbit around the moon
>>18117151I am trying to get into Christianity but I literally just cannot believe any of it. I don't think it's in my genes to be a Christ worshipper
>>18117731I'm an atheist but I still find the Bible and the overall culture and aesthetic of Christianity interesting. You can become a Christian Atheist like Richard Dawkins or Jordon Peterson if you really wanted to
>>18117441>>18117731>>18117735Enjoy Hell.
>>18117790>Namelmao, figures you were a seething vatnik, I bet you're also an Orthochud
>>18117151They also have less children and less sex overall, too.
>>18117798>lmaoHow very.
>>18117305How are you so sure of this? How do you explain why pagans haven't agreed on a political consensus long enough in the last 700 or so years to overthrow the Leviathan in Rome or been able to stamp out evangelical churches as they pop up like a whack a mole?
>>18117309>The first convert in Acts is an Ethiopian???You missed a few chapters, I guess, where there were thousands of converts from many different nations.
>>18117151>smart and educated>dumb and indoctrinated
>>18117731You don't need to believe any of it. Take a page from Islam (as it is far better at understanding this than Christianity) and just learn it, go to a church, and do the rituals with no belief necessary. Living that life will change you because your physical actions change your brain more than anything else.Let me know if you find a church that worships the Lord instead of PWC. I'm looking too.>>18117825Better to just post quotes from genius professors whenever these threads get posted.
>>18117151Because they don't know what's good for them.They also have less children and let the idiots outbreed them. Being clever is no substitute for being wise.
>>18117964>Lewis>Genius professor
>>18117684Don't worry, your religion is as nonsensical as the abrahamic ones.
>>18117151Because they understand more and don't accept apologetics for the problems in religion. They've been educated in complex thought, and understand that the things that people need religion for either aren't resolved by religion or have better answers elsewhere.Think of the main reasons why people have a religious belief. A philosopher or scientist will already have answers to some of those questions, from what they're educated in. It's easy to conclude that religion isn't necessary for anything then.>When Napoleon asked Laplace where God fit into his mathematical description of the universe, Laplace reportedly replied, "Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis".A tale as old as time.
>>18117659>Apollo is the Christian GodNeedful post Saar.
>>18117814>How are you so sure of this?My assuredness stems from the fact that I am not retarded.>How do you explain why pagans haven'tModern misrepresentations of what pre-christian Europeans believed about themselves is what prevented and still prevents any return to a viable alternative. They would have you believe they worshiped devils instead of that their peoples are the divinely begotten heirs of the earth. I find it laughable, that they try to suggest that one should worship the greek gods when even then they knew they were of the gods.
