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I understand how people can argue that the Bible is fact and that beliefs not even extrapolated by them are concrete facts: They are physiologically incapable of individual thought.
But so many obviously intelligent people swallow these claims as well. From such an early age, thoughtlessness was presented as a virtue to so many people. The Catholic Church threatened Galilaeo's life because he had ideas that could prompt others to think for themselves instead of blind acceptance of antiquated belief systems. They shouldn't have worried: people cannot deal with anything but what they are used to. Some people are predisposed to creativity, some are not. Some are capable of absolute belief in a singular truth, while others are capable of doubt. To some people hypothetical situations are for the classroom alone, while for others they represent the uncertainties in the real world.
The other problem is that the modern world has removed too many selective pressures. In a wilderness situation, a creatively-inclined individual would probably survive and reproduce better than a person predisposed to rigidly upholding traditions. In religious communities (eg. where absistinance only sex-ed is practiced), birth rates are significantly higher than in other areas and family sizes tend to be larger. The moral majority is trying to disprove evolution through its own self-effacing culture. Irony anyone?
Religion has a place. But it has to remember it.
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