[DaemonSic]

I got this into my inbox.
Does religion make people stupid? Or religion has nothing to do with it?
DISCUSS MOTHERFUCKERS!

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.

[Mugetsu.]

I believe people shouldn't really follow a religion. It's just common knowledge.

[E.J]

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.

[w00t]

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.

[Oni]

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.

[Xeronations]

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.

[Daaksin]

There's nothing wrong with a religion. Sometimes it's your culture.
Being a religious person does not make you stupid.

- Daaksin

[cr33pyguy]

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.

[PhargedPhreak]

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.

[ncmxracer]

No it doesnt make people stupid. People are hard wired to believe in something greater than themselves.