Question:
Why are theists so delusional?
2014-05-29 00:38:54 UTC
Why can't everyone think like we atheists do? Obviously, me being atheist automatically makes me smarter than everyone else in the world. Obviously, we all came from abiogenesis, a big fancy word that smart scientist people say, so they must be right. Well, bAsically, we all came from a space rock, set into motion by space, obviously. Then we all evolved from monkeys. Why are Christians so dumb they can't understand?
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gscottphilly
2014-05-29 03:06:22 UTC
Scientists dont know evrythimg and to put all ur faith in science is delusional. What we thought we "knew" 100years ago is now wrong and 100 b4 that was different b4 then and so on. Science does have it's place in society and is very knowledgable is alota areas but not all, especially in events that can't be xplained by science that defy the law of physics of the supernatural. Again, how can any1 have faith in a logic that states that complex intelligence with a consciousness and emotions came from a random sporatic unintelligent big bang? It's illogical but atheists aren't able t grasp this concept by the way they think. It's a mental block. Literally. Atheism is a form of autism which has a deficiency in a part of the brain that fails to think critically with logic and deductive reason. Science doesn't always mean logic but u can't grasp that fact cause of this mental block. So, in a way, ur considered retarded.



The strongest connection between atheism and autism before now was a paper presented at a conference last year by Catherine Caldwell-Harris and collaborators at Boston University. Survey respondents with high-functioning autism were more likely than control subjects to be atheists and less likely to belong to an organized religion. And atheists were higher on the autistic spectrum than Christians and Jews.



That’s where the new paper comes in. Ara Norenzayan and Will Gervais of the University of British Columbia and Kali Trzesniewski of UC Davis report on four studies. The first study replicates the finding of the BU research: 12 autistic and 13 neurotypical adolescents took part, and the neurotypical subjects were 10 times as likely to strongly endorse God.



The other three studies went further. They included hundreds of participants from a variety of demographics in the US and Canada and used various measures of belief in God and of mentalizing abilities. The results of all three followed the same pattern.



First, people with higher scores on the Autism Spectrum Quotient (items included “I am fascinated by numbers,” and “I find social situations [difficult]”) had weaker belief in a personal God. Second, reduced ability to mentalize mediated this correlation. (Mentalizing was measured with the Empathy Quotient, which assesses self-reported ability to recognize and react to others’ emotions, and with a task that requires identifying what’s being expressed in pictures of eyes. Systematizing—interest in and aptitude for mechanical and abstract systems—was correlated with autism but was not a mediator.) Third, men were much less likely than women to say they strongly believed in a personal God (even controlling for autism), and this correlation was also mediated by reduced mentalizing. That's right, reduced mentalizing.. Pretty much sums it up



The head of an autism association in Turkey has apologised for suggesting that autistic people were natural atheists, and that atheism could be a form of autism.



Sociologist Fehmi Kaya, head of the Health and Education Associations for Autistic Children, was reported in numerous Turkish media outlets as saying autistic children were “atheists due to a lack of a section for faith in their brains.” This is proof of a mental block and the the limited cognitive ability in the brains of atheists.



“That is why they don’t know how to pray, how to believe in God. It is necessary to create awareness [or religion] in these children through methods of therapy.”



"Autistic children were atheists from birth without being aware of it," he was quoted as saying. “Research says atheism and autistic children are linked. Researchers in the USA and Canada say that atheism is a different form of autism.” “We cannot expect a child who cannot recognize a picture to recognize God. We need to help the autistic child recognize objects through therapy by targeting areas of senses in the brain.” The study is proof that the part of the atheist's brain is lacking stimuli limiting the full cognitive process of the brain, therefore, limiting or the inability of the their brain's full potential in deductive reasoning and critical thinking which in turn limits the full awareness of being human and human consciousness..If u choose to leave me message, I will not reply back because It's pointless to argue with a person who has limited cognitive ability, especially a person whose not even aware of it. I don't wanna pick of the handicapped or as we say now in the era of political correctness..mentally challenged..So, I'm ready 4 all of your thumbs down, angry comments, general insults, personal attacks with no substance& illogical fueled bratty tirades
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2014-05-29 00:42:17 UTC
We have faith in God. You have faith in there not being a God. Neither are proven. No scientific evidence for either belief.

But unlike you we have a personal connection with something that we experience as real. And you can't call us mentally ill because we are billions in number and you are not, and the majority of us are quite functional (so stuff it.)
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2014-05-29 00:41:06 UTC
They aren't, your insulting rant has been reported. BTW blocking people does not prevent them from reporting you anymore:) WAA WAA WAA
2014-05-29 00:41:05 UTC
Not to be picky dear but we didn't evolve from monkeys.



We evolved from primates.



Actually a diverse species of great ape .
2014-05-29 00:57:33 UTC
You're not smart.... just arrogant. Acting superior and spouting a few long words does not true wisdom show.

It is people 'crowing' like you do that gives atheists everywhere a bad name.
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2014-05-29 00:45:06 UTC
Well, you know natural explanations have worked so far and supernatural hasn't- And it IS kind of daft to think a spirit magically created elephants and planets out of nothing. Statistically atheists are more intelligent, yes. But you aren't one of us, I think.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395972/Atheists-higher-IQs-Their-intelligence-makes-likely-dismiss-religion-irrational-unscientific.html
2014-05-29 00:43:18 UTC
We don't want to be hopeless, insignificant, apes (like atheists) who spend all day talking about a God who you all don't believe in...



Idiots...
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2014-05-29 00:43:15 UTC
You can ask a theist that.
2014-05-29 00:41:10 UTC
Almost convincing. I'll give you a 7/10 troll score.
2014-05-29 00:40:39 UTC
'We" -- what a pompous self-deluded clown you are. You speak for NO ONE but yourself. Grow up.



Studies show atheists as unbelievably superstitious and often anti-science.



MEMORIZE THIS



"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians.

[Bigfoot] Corbis



The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?



The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.



Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's former denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of those belonging to the Assemblies of God, Sarah Palin's former denomination, did. In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the possibility of communicating with people who are dead.



This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.



Surprisingly, while increased church attendance and membership in a conservative denomination has a powerful negative effect on paranormal beliefs, higher education doesn't. Two years ago two professors published another study in Skeptical Inquirer showing that, while less than one-quarter of college freshmen surveyed expressed a general belief in such superstitions as ghosts, psychic healing, haunted houses, demonic possession, clairvoyance and witches, the figure jumped to 31% of college seniors and 34% of graduate students.
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2014-05-29 00:53:29 UTC
Credulity


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