Is it prejudice though?
I am with you on this one. Seemingly intelligent people who think it is perfectly reasonable to believe in their imaginary friend in the sky. Otherwise sane people that will remain forever lower in my estimation because they haven't the gumption to see through all the religious baloney to realise the needlessness for their belief.

Ooops, nearly went off on a real rant there.

Just use a bit of common sense and figure it out for yourselves. Its all made up a long time ago to explain stuff that we couldn't explain otherwise (but can now) and to give a bit of comfort around the time of the death of a loved one.

I don't think it is prejudice to think less of such people - they have brought it upon themselves by revealing their inferiority to us, the enlightened.
(karnuvap, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 21:10, 1 reply)

Hmm, well I'm not so sure
Religion is so pervasive in society (whether it's there as a crutch or not), that there must be something in all of us that predisposes us to religious or indeed, generally irrational, belief.

We're not as clever as we think we are, or maybe it's simply a good evolutionary strategy to believe in "something" over "nothing".
( rofl harris, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 9:32, closed)

Sure, our brains are wired to tempt us into believing...
and it is by far the easier option but now we have the intelligence to see beyond this primitive instict and there is no longer a need to invoke a religious belief in order to explain mysterious coincidences or devise a meaning for life.
The way I look at it is that it all came about because we are the only species who realise that we are going to die. To all other species, death comes as a complete surprise. The rest follows from an indignant disbelief that "this is all there is".
(karnuvap, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 11:22, closed)