Question: fiat

“I must apologize. Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. All of your responses in different ways gave me examples of Smart people like (John Lennox) who are not so smart. I get that-you get that-we all get that. There are smart people who are stupid. My example of John Lennox is an example of that. The interesting reason for discussion is WHY.. What is going. That a brilliant professor who speaks 5 languages can believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, Noah"s arc or the earth is 10,000 years old....WHY HOW --What is going in John Lennox brain that he believes such crazy nonsense.. Is it a virus.Is it a fungus growing in his brain.. Is it a mutation of cerebral logic. Is John Lennox really a pod from aliens.. No matter what I write in my posts for some reason you ridicule me. I am very sensitive and my feelings get hurt easily . Please be nice to me. I a good person. The question is not that smart people can be very stupid but WHY HOW ????????????????????????????”

Answer: Cognostic

“You have been answered for over 2 pages. 1. Lack of critical thinking skills in one area. He does not apply what he knows about religious beliefs. 2. Lack of rationality. He opts to believe in magical woo woo instead of direct evidence. 3. He lacks the ability to be skeptical when it comes to his religious beliefs.

HE DOES THE EXACT SAME THING THAT ALL THEISTS DO.”

And for further examples…

While I was in college after winning my law suit against the IRS, earning a 2nd Baccalaureate, a Masters, and working towards a PhD, guess how many classes I ended up dropping and re-taking because the instructor was a Religious Absolutist? At least a dozen. Perhaps more. I never kept count. And now try to guess in which section of college courses these instructors were in? Liberal Arts. Most, if not all, colleges I have attended and/or visited, had college courses divided into two major sections: Liberal Arts, Physical Sciences. Then these were further divided. At literally every college I have visited and stole a course catalogue just to peruse what each offered, I still do to this day, if it is a university I have never visited, all universities tend to divide into two major sections: Liberal Arts and Physical Sciences. And most of the jocks will ALWAYS focus into the Liberal Arts because those courses are not as difficult and as intense.

Now, for the kicker, guess into which major section all mathematics courses are placed? Liberal Arts. It is in the Liberal Arts curriculum where you will find the most religious university instructors. It is damn near impossible to find any Liberal Arts instructors who can keep their religiosity separate from their teaching job. Most have to have a complaint filed against them, sometimes many complaints, to keep their fucking religiosity out of the damned classroom.

Remember one thing about Religious Absolutists I have said on these forums many, many times.

Arakish: “I can attest to the aggressive tactics of theists. The main reason behind their aggressiveness is due to the indoctrination processes they are put through utilizing absolute psychological terrorism. Essentially, they are taught that they are to go out into the world and "save souls" even if it kills us godless heathens.”

The only university instructors I have found that ALWAYS keep their teaching profession separate from their religiosity are the ones in the Physical Sciences section. If they are religious, they also happen to be more intelligent (than the Liberal Arts instructors) and keep their religious beliefs, or lack of, out of the classroom. Even if they are asked by a student, I would say at least 9 out of 10 will reply, "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"

The adage, "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?" actually means "What does that have to do with [whatever]?" Just substitute the [whatever]/the price of tea in China, with whatever you are talking about.

Thus, since John Lennox falls into the Liberal Arts section of universities, that just means he is smart enough to earn a PhD in math, just ain't intelligent enough to recognize lies. Remember one of my definitions for Religious Absolutists: "Knows the facts, sees the facts, but stupid/gullible enough to believe the lies."

As everyone else has said. Just because a person is brilliantly intelligent, does not mean they won't also be stupid/gullible enough to be brainwashed. I myself, as others have said, have seen some of the most brilliant people who also have been brainwashed so deeply by the indoctrination processes the Religious Absolutists employ so as to be die-hard believers.

As an aside, remember that the Religious Absolutists will begin their indoctrination processes upon the defenseless minds of children between the ages of 4 to 14 when the child is at their most vulnerable for social and cultural and religious indoctrination utilizing a controlled and systematic process using mental rape, emotional molestation, and psychological terrorism. The child's norms of fidelity are tyrannically dictated and imposed in such a way that children are trained to vomit conflicting ideas and to never consider the veracity of what they puke.

Religious Absolutists are trained to react to ideas, and to reject them no matter what you are told, presented, and/or taught. Religious Absolutists are taught to never question their beliefs. They are militantly trained to maintain and preserve the faith. And, due to this designed abusive training and indoctrination process, they shall defend the faith with apologetics, beguiling dialectical semantics, distorted and perverted data, emotional whiny-ass pleas, and sometimes divinely-inspired violence.

Worst of all, their conditioning is so ingrained that they never question why they need to defend their beliefs and faith at all. This form of indoctrination, no matter its intended outcome, is actually “child abuse” in the form of the most heinous, outrageous, nefarious, hideous, abominable, atrocious “psychological terrorism.” All of which is immoral in any moral landscape. However, due to the First Amendment, religion gets a free ride to practice all the immorality they wish. One only has to prove it is religious to prove it is not immoral.

Their indoctrination processes teach Religious Absolutists to never think for themselves, but to close their mind against all things except for what some human-made, fictional, make-believe Sky Faerie and Magic Lich Virgin in an obsolete and irrelevant and barbaric and savagely immoral Bronze and Iron Age religious texts commands them to think. For me, that is the most heinous of acts, especially to do it to children. And no matter whatever you may say to the contrary, this is child abuse. And I wholeheartedly agree with what David Killens here at the Atheist Republic forums once said:

“I despise apologists, especially those who use their skills to sway the minds of children, and rob them of their independence and self–worth. They also begin a journey of life that will always posses fear. I do not like it, and if I had the power, I would prosecute apologists for child abuse.

“You beat a child, they will bruise, but they will recover. Teach them religion, and they lose many admirable characteristics, and be scarred (and pretty messed up) for life. Both are despicable acts, but one inflicts major long term damage.”

If I had my way, not only would I arrest the apologists for child abuse, I'd have the parents arrested for giving their children into an abusive environment.

Basically, John Lennox was probably so psychologically damaged from his brainwashing that he shall never recover. The same can be said of all PhD Religious Absolutists, especially Apologists like William Lane Craig the Genocidal Sociopath.

I, for one, am glad of the way my mind thinks. When I asked my dad why I could not believe the Bible or Christianity, he replied, “Your brain and mind thinks like a computer. If it ain't rational or logical, it does not compute.” This is also why humor tends to evade me. My wife helped me lot with that problem. However, sometimes there are things persons will immediately laugh at, but I have to sit and think about it.

It also explained why I was so good at writing computer programs before the accident that killed my family. My problem now with computer programs is not that I cannot write them, and they work, just that when they don't work exactly as intended, I cannot debug the damn thing. It now takes me about 10 to 100 times as long to debug as to write the program in the first place. And these damned IDEs are worthless with their suppossed intelligent debug tools. Those debug tools just causes me to take even longer to debug a program.

Let me shut the fuck up. I am starting to get on a rant.

rmfr

Sorry - Atheists don't have all the intelligent people, and religions don't have all the dunces.

For example, 55% of college graduates in the US "believe in God with absolute certainty".
http://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/26/in-america-does-more-education-equal-...

In another related web site I can't find now. The group with the highest education in the USA is the Hindu group. Maybe you can find that web news (I think it was from Pew).