A Guide to doing Religion Wrong!

[dsgrue3]

Anfebious said:

dsgrue3 said:
40% of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth and God supplanted humans on Earth less than 10,000 years ago.

And you wonder why the non-religious have a problem with these scientifically illiterate simpletons.

It is DESTRUCTIVE. There is no "hey man, let anyone believe what they want." Then what the fuck is the point of education? Aren't we supposed to be passing off KNOWLEDGE, not BULLSHIT? Oh you believe that the light spectrum is only 3 wavelengths? Fascinating, but wrong. Do you understand yet?

Time to get a clue and stop purporting unsubstantiated belief systems as dogma.

One can be very knowledgable and have a religion. I think it has nothing to do with how intelligent a person is.

No doubt, but one can have much knowledge about the stock market and no knowledge of physics, biology, chemistry, anthropology - hence scientifically illiterate.

The point is not that these people are stupid, it's that religion allows them to say these things without question. It is accepted even when evidence defeats the faith position. It's very dangerous.