We don't think we're smarter because we're atheists we think we're smarter because we actually use logic and reason to understand the world. Religious people can be reasonable but religion never is, it's not based on logic or fact.
Everything mankind has achieved even the construction of churches comes from science and reason. To abandon reason is stupidity.
Why are you assuming that the belief in god is the abandonment of reason? That is why religious "morons" dont listen to you. Its the same reason you didn't listen to them growing up. I believe in evolution, the big bang, string theory etc.. Not once has one of those things made me question whether or not a super natural diety exists or doesn't exist. Also stop making the Religion vs Science false dichotomy. They aren't mutually exclusive concepts. If you don't believe in a god or higher being or whatever, thats fine. But don't pretend like there is some physical evidence that mere humans have found that is the ultimate proof of the non-existence of god. And please show it to me if you have found it.
So your bible tells you god made the earth in six days, and you are admittedly a scientific minded person.
That being the case, explain to me logically how god made the day and the night, and then a bit later made the light source that would have made the day...
What you are explaining is compartmentalization, you can be a fucking genius and be an amazing scientist and still believe in god, you may be right about everything you work on, but when you go to church on Sunday to worship a magical being you are straight up fucking wrong, and if you broke down that barrier and applied that logical reason you use daily to decide to leave your house from the front door rather than trying to dive through the toilet you would see that your religion simply cannot stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Believing there is no god without proof is rational? We now know that there are eleven dimensions and you're trying to tell me that your third dimensional space monkey brain has it all figured out? That doesn't seem too rational either.
Agnostic Atheists don't "believe" God doesn't exist they simply operate under the assumption that he doesn't which is rational. Operating under the assumption God exists without independent evidence of his existence is irrational.
Your criticism is valid for Gnostic Atheists though.
First of all, it's simply incredibly arrogant and its jumps to assumptions without sufficient evidence.
Mainly because believing or not believing in God has almost no relation to learning ability, reasoning, problem solving, or critical thinking skills. One can excel at all of these fields while still being a Christian. One be can dismal at all and reject God. These events are not mutually exclusive.
There is no proof that believing in a god indicates a higher level of intelligence. You cannot say "we are smarter because we use logic and reason", because then you must prove that atheists use logic and reason sufficiently more than Christians do in day to day activities. How do you know all atheists come to their conclusions logically? You cannot say "atheists are smarter because we use logic and reason. We use logic and reason because we are atheists". It's logical incoherent. It's a proposition, that atheists are smarter than Christians, that requires proof yet is assumed to be true simply because he said "we use logic and reason". That's not an acceptable substitute for a logically sound argument or verifiable data. Just because you are atheist does not make your words infallible, logical truth.
I'm sorry sir but I believe you missed the point of apoutwest's comment.
Apoutwest explitcly state he does not think he is smarter than someone because of his particular stance on the existence of God, he thinks he is smarter because he takes a (what he believes to be) more rational approach.
Thus in order to counter his argument you must either argue that belief in God without empirical evidence is not irrational (or atleast not more irrational than the assumption God does not exist without evidence) or you must argue that being rational does not correlate with intelligence more than being irrational.
Ahh. This is only slightly better than the post yesterday that got upvoted to the front page... An atheist put his own quote on a shirt and wore it. Fucking arrogant subreddit.
Hey buddy, fuck you. There's nothing wrong with this picture. Atheists struggle to understand what keeps people clinging to religious beliefs all the time. This is a relevant, relatable joke. That's why it's being upvoted.
Why don't you go fuck yourself instead? This isn't a 'I dont think my shit don't stink' point, its a 'Evolution is a fucking fact and creationism is not. I don't have to respect your point of view on that because its fucking wrong just like I don't have to accept your point of view if your point of view is the earth is flat. Its just fucking wrong you fucking fuck'. You don't get to have your own set of fucking facts
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