Allhailodin wrote:

And you just realized this little fact ? Religion makes people mindless drones, uncapable of thinking for themselves anymore. So why is it a shock ?

Darkphoenix3450 wrote:



Shock???

threnagyn wrote:

I would agree with that because people who follow that stuff without thinking for themselves dont expand their minds. You need to test stuff out for yourself and think about things.

threnagyn wrote:

Sorenku, you may be right in some way. Some religious people are intelligent, but Ive also met a lot that believe in A, B, C, etc. simply because thats how they were raised, or because their king, teacher, military, or w/e told them to. I only agree with the idea that it makes sense that people who follow religions are less intelligent on average. With average being the key word. Athiests and agnostics are probably more inteligent of average because they sit back and reject or question ideas that don't settle with them properly.

Well, I will have to agree with you there. Only fools would turn off their brain for a non-existent being

the_glob wrote:



You might want to look at this to understand of correlation and causation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

Correlation is not causation but it sure is a hint.

For a simple exaggerated example of what i meant that you provided an example of a possible cause.
Child A: The data here shows that we have the same ancestor as monkeys millions of years ago
Child B: That data is wrong, we should not investigate it. God is the creator of man, we should not delve into secrets we were not meant to know.
Child A: Eh, ok. I have a green marble here.
Child B: Oooohh, green marbles are so prrretty.

Child A: The data here shows that we have the same ancestor as monkeys millions of years ago.
Child B: What? Thats incredible. Is it real or did someone fake the thing?
Child A: Well, my dad told me that findings like this gets published and any other scientist is free to take a whack at it to prove it wrong. The articles says that the some people at Harvard and some Insitute in switzerland ran their own tests and confirmed it
Child B: Wow, thats like incredible. I'll go look at the internet to find out more.

As for your statement "And there are people who are both religious and intelligent. Are you really going to say people are intelligent despite religion?", you did not really think about what the video was saying did you? Part of the study used nobel winners in science and found that they are of a high majority, non religious. Are there religious nobel winners? Sure, because it states ~90% not 100%. I don't have to know anything about you but the following statements would have a 99.99% chance of being true.
i) Are you be as tall as Yao Ming? Sure you COULD be, but your are UNLIKELY to be as tall as Yao Ming.
ii) Are you as fast as Usain Bolt? Sure you COULD be, but you're UNLIKELY to be.
iii) Are you as good at F1 racing as Lewis Hamilton? Sure you COULD be, but you are UNLIKELY to be.

Are there people as tall as Yao Ming? Sure Yao Ming is as tall as himself.
Are there people as fast as Usain Bolt? Sure, Usain Bolt is as fast as himself
You should get the idea now.

mac-e-o wrote:

I never turned my brain off for god!.........then again mabey thats why im starting to belive hes not real :P

Allhailodin wrote:



Yea, you haven't noticed ? Religious people are mindless idiots, who never once question what they believe, if you actually though about what your church was telling you, you would find yourself questioning a lot of the shit they tell you.

Allhailodin wrote:



Well most religious people turned their brain off for god, just look at all the christains in america. look at the shit thet believe and how stupid they are.