Reply #34: See, It Is Interesting [View All]

[SPKrazy]

That I read a lot, always have
went to college
went to graduate school
studied psychology, sociology, sciences (biology mainly)
certainly am not a bible thumper (not one that reads the bible all the time either as I read other books about a wide diversity of beliefs, cultures, spirituality.

My conclusions were different than yours. Does that make you smarter than me? Does that make me smarter than you?

I don't know the answer. I think we are just two different people with different ideas about God or lack of God.

My pastor is a Yale educated seminarian, much better read than I am, a philosophy teacher at a local university as well. Is he smarter than me? Perhaps. (since I know he is very bright and interesting I can accept that possibility. Is he a different type of thinker than I am? Definitely. He is a philosophy instructor and thinks through the lens of a philosphy instructor. Logic, strained and strained ideas, parsed word by word, kind of thinking.)

Is he smarter than you? I have no idea. You are a well written, intelligent sounding person, who is able to write your ideas thoughtfully and logically.

Now I don't know why I'm picking out intelligence, other than I am not sure that intelligence is necessarily a measure of belief vs non belief (nor do I think I read that you thought it was either)
I do believe that there are very intelligent people in the world who believe in a God. I also believe that there are very intelligent people in the world who don't believe.

Is it a choice? It is interesting how intelligent people look at the same data and conclude different things isn't it.

Just another one of the great mysteries of human nature, which makes us all the more interesting in my opinion.