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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (46126)	4/3/2002 11:11:10 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

We had a guy named "Jeb" who came to our school and heckled girls with short hair, or who were wearing pants, and told them they were going to hell. He wasn't actually enrolled at our school, but he wasn't very thoughtful. I think people are thoughtful when they are not challenged. Most people who feel their beliefs are being challenged (even when what is actually happening is just an active discussion) lose their thoughtfulness rather quickly. Just my observation. It has also been my observation that the religious are more likely to assume everyone understand the existence of God, and then shake their heads sadly over people who do not. I have found in many (but certainly not all) religious persons, a tendency to think it is the "fault" of the non-believer for being the way they are. You surely can't have missed that ethos. "You aren't opening your heart" blah blah blah. I find that sort of morally superior attitude to be pretentious.

To: Neocon who wrote (46126)	4/3/2002 11:25:20 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, this is a short summary of a variety of surveys that have been done on student bodies. They all tend toward showing a positive relationship between intelligence and agnosticism or atheism; as well, a negative correlation between religiousity and honesty, and so forth. However, I doubt that many agnostics actually wish to grandstand on these results. They simply wish to be spared the moral superiority and supercilious scorn that seems a regretful concomitant of some religious people. As to your usage of SAT scores to deduce the comparisons of intelligence with pretentiousness...am I making too little of that? kspark.kaist.ac.kr