PLAYER57832 wrote:[People did not believe the Earth was round, it was stupid to think it would be, many thought, until they saw the evidence. You think it is stupid to believe in God because you cannot see, have not seen the evidence. However, you don't know everything there is to know, have not experienced many things. You know this in other aspects. However, for some reason think its OK, when it comes to God to just say "well, I don't see it so anyone who does is just stupid".
Conversely, people believed with all their will and might that the earth was flat, and in reality, with no real evidence to support such a belief. You also do not know everything there is to know, and have not experienced many things, and one of them being a state of not believing in a God. In some ways, a person who has believed, and has not believed very much is more enlightened than someone who has always believed.
In any case, those experiences, and things you have seen can still never constitute evidence in any real way. What they are, are simply experiences that guide your perception and beliefs. Certainly, it is impossible to know many things in this world for sure, so I dont think that you need assume any who question your belief in a God they simply have no reason or evidence to believe in as questioning your intelligence. In fact, making the assumption that those who do not believe in the same things you do, that you must be stupid for believing them is actually what is stupid.
Many here, if not most are not trying to prove believers are stupid in any way. Most are trying to engage in a debate mostly for the purposes of entertainment for the most part.
What we do know for certain and is proven is that the human mind and belief system cannot be fully trusted. It is very easily corrupted and reality is only one of the factors that shapes it. One need only research delusional psychosis, LSD use, or even read a Steven King book, to fully and immediately understand that humans can invent, and come to believe in a great many things, and in some converse relationship with reality, it are the real states of reality, with actual scientific evidence that are often the most difficult for them to come to accept, especially when they counter what they previously believed.
The human mind simply resists change, especially fundamental change, because it is not especially well equipped to deal with it. When understanding this aspect of human nature it makes it obvious that it is the strongest beliefs that can be discounted the most easily from a scientific viewpoint. They often represent a process that simply cannot be trusted, so as their strength in them increases, their credibility decreases per se, if not evidence is available to support them. This of course is only from a scientific stand point however. In reality, the strong opinions and beliefs actually become more believable on an instinctive and subconscious level, and often the more impossible they seem, the more they are believable. People are very easily swayed by things that are not true, and must be taught things that are true. There are countless examples of how this happens in human society, but when does research this and sees the examples, they very much do become more resistant to the process, to varying degrees.
In any case, no one is saying this is stupid per se, though sometimes it very much is. Only that there is no actual scientific evidence for many beliefs whatsoever, and that the belief itself, is not evidence of anything except the well...the belief itself.