Thread: World Leaders Gather For Paris Unity March in an empty street.

Originally Posted by StephL

We are not all as stupid and/or culturally and/or personally unfortunate as to be religious, and it is well possible to say one is solidaric with people coming on the radar undeservedly and tell them go on dismantling their delusions in so many nice euphemistic words without such staggering idiocy of formulation.

> Implying that being an atheist is inherently the "smarter" choice.

Which it isn't.

Dropping a religion doesn't make one an intellectual, and adopting a faith doesn't make one a fool. College kids and budding armchair-intellectuals may disagree, but it's no different than picking one political ideology or social theory over another. It's just a set of ideas that an individual can use to help them orient themselves, nothing more. What one does with it is another matter, but it has more to do with how that individual internalizes and expresses any and all other ideas than it does with any specific concept (religious belief, atheism, etc.).

Religion isn't a scary mental trap that leads people astray and holds us back as a species any more than capitalism, communism, etc. are. That sort of shortsighted rationalization is best left to bloggers.

Originally Posted by BLUELINE976

Of course you do.

lulz

Originally Posted by GavinGill

Implying that being an atheist is inherently the "smarter" choice.

Which it isn't.

Dropping a religion doesn't make one an intellectual, and adopting a faith doesn't make one a fool. College kids and budding armchair-intellectuals may disagree, but it's no different than picking one political ideology or social theory over another. It's just a set of ideas that an individual can use to help them orient themselves, nothing more. What one does with it is another matter, but it has more to do with how that individual internalizes and expresses any and all other ideas than it does with any specific concept (religious belief, atheism, etc.).

Religion isn't a scary mental trap that leads people astray and holds us back as a species any more than capitalism, communism, etc. are. That sort of shortsighted rationalization is best left to bloggers.

Oh well - each to their opinion.
Just because there are other scary mental traps out there holding us back, I do not have to approve of the religious variants.