Comments on: Education detrimental to religious belief! https://myhonestopinionblog.com/education-detrimental-to-religious-belief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=education-detrimental-to-religious-belief Common sense opinion relating to current and recurring issues Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Al Ward https://myhonestopinionblog.com/education-detrimental-to-religious-belief/comment-page-1/#comment-3302 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 02:05:53 +0000 http://myhonestopinionblog.com/?p=1541#comment-3302 Jorg,
You state above that:
If “faith” is understood as a belief in some higher, natural power that drives it all and which we may never fully understand, I’m onboard.

I’m surprised that you are an onboard believer!!!

In light of that, it’s surprising that you dismiss as superstition the writings of the scientifically ignorant seven percenters of millennia ago who wrote the parables and tales of the bible, attempting to express their understandings of a higher, natural power that drives it all.

]]> By: Jorg https://myhonestopinionblog.com/education-detrimental-to-religious-belief/comment-page-1/#comment-3280 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:19:10 +0000 http://myhonestopinionblog.com/?p=1541#comment-3280 In reply to Al Ward.

The statistics and interpretation are from the article I linked at the bottom of my summary. However, what should be added, is that the “faith” of the 7%-group of the NAC members is subject to a deeper interpretation. If “faith” is understood as a belief in some higher, natural power that drives it all and which we may never fully understand, I’m onboard. However, if the interpretation is belief in the Bible stories and a “God” who started it and is controlling it all, I call it silly superstition, plain and simple. If the Bible is read with an open, inquisitive mind, one will realize it is all made up, – sprinkled with recognizable geographical names like what is common in fiction to make the stories more believable. For further enlightenment, I can recommend Dan Barker’s “God, the most unpleasant character of all fiction”. Btw, I’m planning another post comparing the current state of affairs with Nazi-Germany in the 1930’s, where religion made a vital role for Hitler’s success, and without which he would not have made it!

]]> By: Al Ward https://myhonestopinionblog.com/education-detrimental-to-religious-belief/comment-page-1/#comment-3278 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 01:27:41 +0000 http://myhonestopinionblog.com/?p=1541#comment-3278 I find it amusing that you assume the 7% of the members of The National Academy of Sciences who are believers are somehow intellectually or mentally inferior to the other 93%. Considering how vast are the secrets of the universe, and how little is known about the human brain it seems equally reasonable to assume that the 7% have an unidentified mental superiority or understanding that gifts a connection to the Almighty.

To those who think they know it all I suggest they remember that about a hundred years ago it was suggested that the US patent office should be closed because everything had been invented.

Just say’n.
I happen to be an agnostic who thinks that blanket disparagement of believers is laughably arrogant.

By the way….if you think that religious beliefs fade when there is a strong social safety net…take a look at the Mormons, where the safety net is provided by the faithful for their religious community.

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