I Am An Atheist
I once wrote a post on the EP back in my edgy atheist days. While I say I remember it more as a joke than anything else, I did have quite a few valid points, including my analysis of intelligent religious people. My argument was that those who are intelligent, will question their beliefs whether they choose to hold onto them or not.
Challenging your own beliefs is necessary part of critical thinking, and if you are incapable of doing so than you are simply incapable of critical thinking. This would be how to objectively identify a stupid religious person. Well the theists of EP didn't take very kindly to this, called me arrogant, which I admitted to more to parody their sheer irrationality. I was 17 at the time and tempted to making a second post remarking at the fact that some theists apparently can't read comprehensively.
Because it just seemed to me like the only people who could be offended by that post, were those among the religious who never doubted them for a second, not even bothered to ponder at the possibility that they may be wrong, and in their stupidity, they projected their own meaningless arrogance onto me.
But there were so many who got offended I just felt like I was too successful in my analysis of them. The truly intelligent among the religious, never would have taken that kind of offence. It was kind of strange having arguments with those imbeciles at the time. I had never actually seen so many in one place before.
And of course it was boring as well, because none of them were able to discern a thought of their own from what everyone else was saying. It was like looking at this enormous hive mind, and while I did laugh at their pathetic online vitriol, I also realised how people like this would have been dangerous in the past.
Challenging your own beliefs is necessary part of critical thinking, and if you are incapable of doing so than you are simply incapable of critical thinking. This would be how to objectively identify a stupid religious person. Well the theists of EP didn't take very kindly to this, called me arrogant, which I admitted to more to parody their sheer irrationality. I was 17 at the time and tempted to making a second post remarking at the fact that some theists apparently can't read comprehensively.
Because it just seemed to me like the only people who could be offended by that post, were those among the religious who never doubted them for a second, not even bothered to ponder at the possibility that they may be wrong, and in their stupidity, they projected their own meaningless arrogance onto me.
But there were so many who got offended I just felt like I was too successful in my analysis of them. The truly intelligent among the religious, never would have taken that kind of offence. It was kind of strange having arguments with those imbeciles at the time. I had never actually seen so many in one place before.
And of course it was boring as well, because none of them were able to discern a thought of their own from what everyone else was saying. It was like looking at this enormous hive mind, and while I did laugh at their pathetic online vitriol, I also realised how people like this would have been dangerous in the past.
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