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Religion: retardation or brainwashing?

Name: Anonymous 2018-11-06 20:58

No mentally competent person can honestly believe that an omnipotent, omniscient being created a deeply flawed world we are in, cared about it, yet left it filled with what it considers to be evil.

There is a possibility that otherwise sane person might suppress his judgment and avoid thinking about religion in a way that could break the idiotic delusion that is God.
This would prevent him from realizing how retarded the whole idea is.

But then again - is someone suppressing their sane evaluation of idiocy of religion really only misguided?
Does intentionally acting like a retard while believing things that only a retard would believe really all that different from actual retardation?

Note that the above description covers all religions with omniscient, omnipotent beings who have non-zero care about the world.
A religion that presents a weak god, who is just a powerful scientific alien or a wizard limited by mana, is actually far more sensible than the mental garbage that is modern monotheism.
Actually idiotic beliefs of christians, muslims, jews and possibly other religions are obviously not just brainwashing. To support ideas such as fetal personhood, shroud of Turin, homosexuality being an abomination, suffering being better than nonexistence, indivisible immortal soul possessed only by humans, or 6 day creation, one HAS to be retarded and incapable of reason. Not misguided, not just plain wrong, but actually mentally deficient.

Name: Anonymous 2018-11-10 8:00

Mental competence as described by OP seems limited to efficiency and observation. It doesn't take into consideration ethics and wisdom which is vital to human understanding. Futuristic governments such as communism and fascism become despotic failures because of their denial to identify that humans need mysticism and curiosity for social and independent regulation. Religion also offers itself its opportunities to be faithful to all levels of intelligence rather than restricting itself. It is a dominant form of philosophy and life for very strong reasons.

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