I see religious people as having a mind that functions slightly differently in that they are highly impressionable to religious symbolism and can experience faith and belief. My mind does not do these things, because it can't. I don't want to agree with the OP, but I suppose I do. Religious people tend to be woolier thinkers. They are more inclined to be impressed upon with emotional, poetic and mystical things than for their sense of reason to be affected by the lack of empirical evidence or incongruities and contradictions in the Bible or other religious book.
I also don't like the assuredness that atheists have though. Their unshakeable confidence in what they "know" mirrors the unfaltering faith of religious people.
I am religious, and enjoy the arts as well as science. I find this universe amazing and am fascinated by the simplest of things - but I also find it crazy. Whether you believe in God or you don't ... how we got here; how it all started - it's unfathomable.
I'm quite impartial regarding anyone's beliefs. For instance, reincarnation isn't something I believe in, but I contemplate all areas of philosophy and want to explore the notion nonetheless.
When people are highly religious I think they are less intelligent.
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I see religious people as having a mind that functions slightly differently in that they are highly impressionable to religious symbolism and can experience faith and belief. My mind does not do these things, because it can't. I don't want to agree with the OP, but I suppose I do. Religious people tend to be woolier thinkers. They are more inclined to be impressed upon with emotional, poetic and mystical things than for their sense of reason to be affected by the lack of empirical evidence or incongruities and contradictions in the Bible or other religious book.
I also don't like the assuredness that atheists have though. Their unshakeable confidence in what they "know" mirrors the unfaltering faith of religious people.
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You sound like a very open-minded individual.
I am religious, and enjoy the arts as well as science. I find this universe amazing and am fascinated by the simplest of things - but I also find it crazy. Whether you believe in God or you don't ... how we got here; how it all started - it's unfathomable.
I'm quite impartial regarding anyone's beliefs. For instance, reincarnation isn't something I believe in, but I contemplate all areas of philosophy and want to explore the notion nonetheless.
All I know is that I know nothing.
Your comment impresses me. I also agree that atheism is a leap of faith, just as it is to have a philosophical belief in God's existence.