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Does religion make people stupid? - DaemonSic - 11-24-2012
I got this into my inbox.
Does religion make people stupid? Or religion has nothing to do with it?
DISCUSS MOTHERFUCKERS!
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The physicist Stephen Weinberg once famously remarked, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil---that takes religion."
People who believe in one religion and are so closed minded about everything else. Religion is just a way to control people.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - Mugetsu. - 11-24-2012
I believe people shouldn't really follow a religion. It's just common knowledge.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - E.J - 11-25-2012
no everyone should follow 1 religion which Islam , that's my point of view as everything good is there in Islam and everything that is bad / harmful is prohibited
ex : Scamming , Alcohol , drugs , are all prohibited as each got a harmful thing for either yourself or people around you.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - w00t - 11-25-2012
All those things are prohibited in most every religion, the Muslim community is just more strict.
As for OP, you argue that all religious people are close minded. I ask for you to think about what close-minded means.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - Dismas - 11-25-2012
Not all people that are religious are close-minded. In fact, it could be the exact opposite - disregarding the fact that some people are forced to follow a religion from infancy.
Personally, I think it takes a fairly open-minded person to claim that there's a higher power as opposed to dismissing the possibility of one.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - Xeronations - 11-26-2012
People should believe whatever makes them a better person. If that means following a religion, let them do it. It's all a matter of preference.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - Daaksin - 11-27-2012
There's nothing wrong with a religion. Sometimes it's your culture.
Being a religious person does not make you stupid.
- Daaksin
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - cr33pyguy - 11-27-2012
Religion is just a way of thinking. It is basically just the same as sciences. And all people have a "religion" because religion combines everything you believe in. And please do not compare different religions to each other. That is just stupid.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - PhargedPhreak - 02-08-2017
Religion is just an organized belief system. And yeah if you blindly follow an organized belief system without thinking about it you're dumb as fuck.
RE: Does religion make people stupid? - ncmxracer - 03-15-2020
No it doesnt make people stupid. People are hard wired to believe in something greater than themselves.