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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Maghapong paglalakad
Uamaga pa lang naghanda na ako ng aking mga susuutin sa aking pagaaply, naghanda ng maalmusal at insayos ang sarilir. Sabik sa pupuntahang kumpanya, chenek ang mga recuirments at ang rasume na kakailanganin.
Alasais ng umaga ng lumabas na ako ng bahay at naglakad. Nakangiti kahit na sesengkwenta pesos lang ang pera sa bulsa. Nagbaon upang sakaling abutan ng gutom sa daan ay may makakain.
Sumakay ako ng jeep at nagbayad. At habang nakadungaw sa bintana pinagmamasdan ang mga taong naglalakad papunta sa kanilang trabaho. At nagiisip n asana isa rin ako sa mga naglalakad sa daanan ng naka pang opisinang damit.
Hindi ko namalayan na pababa na ako. Dala ang agam-agam sa magiging resulta ng akong lakad. Nang pagbukas ko sa pinto tumambad ang mga aplikanteng halata ang kaba.
Ipanasa ko na ang aking rasume ng buong pagmamalaki at humanay sa mga naghihintay. Bawat aplicante ay may bawat mukang kakaiba. Ibat ibang pinanggalingan at ibat ibang antas ng pinag aralan.
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Natayo na ako sa aking kinauupuan dahil tinawag na aking pangalan at nagtanong sa sarili “ANU BA ANG MAGIGING EKSPRESYON KO PAGKATAPOS NITO?”
Makalipas ang ilang oras at natapos din ako lumabas ako sa silid na iyon na nakasimangot pagkat hindi natanggap.
Lumbas ako ng opisina ng may halong inis at sama ng loob……….
Ang kwento na ito ay base sa karanasan ni Juan Dela Cruz sa kanyang paghahanap ng trabaho. ang pilipnas ay may 30 milyong walang trabaho. maraming pilipino ang nakararanas ng ganito. ang iba nagsisikap na tapusin ang kanilang pagaaral at umaasang sa bandang huli ay magkakaroon ng isang magandang trabaho. mgaraming mga newly graduate ang nahihirapang makahanap ng trabaho sa ating bansa bagamat may diskriminisasyong umiiral. anu paman ang silbi ng ating pinagaralan kung mangilan ngilan lamang ang makikinabang. ang ibang mga pilipino naman dahil sa wala ng makuhang trabaho mas ninanais pa nilang gumawa ng iba pang paraan para mabuhay, napipilitang gumawa ng karahasan para lang mabuhay. kaya hindi din masisi ang gobyerno kung bakit laganap ang krimen sa bansa.
Alasais ng umaga ng lumabas na ako ng bahay at naglakad. Nakangiti kahit na sesengkwenta pesos lang ang pera sa bulsa. Nagbaon upang sakaling abutan ng gutom sa daan ay may makakain.
Sumakay ako ng jeep at nagbayad. At habang nakadungaw sa bintana pinagmamasdan ang mga taong naglalakad papunta sa kanilang trabaho. At nagiisip n asana isa rin ako sa mga naglalakad sa daanan ng naka pang opisinang damit.
Hindi ko namalayan na pababa na ako. Dala ang agam-agam sa magiging resulta ng akong lakad. Nang pagbukas ko sa pinto tumambad ang mga aplikanteng halata ang kaba.
Ipanasa ko na ang aking rasume ng buong pagmamalaki at humanay sa mga naghihintay. Bawat aplicante ay may bawat mukang kakaiba. Ibat ibang pinanggalingan at ibat ibang antas ng pinag aralan.
Bawat labas ng mga aplicante galling sa silid na kung saan sila’y ineenterbyu. Lalong nagbabago ang imahe ng kanilang muka. May masaya, may malungkot, at meron din naming naiinis. At may iba naming kinakausap ang sarili.
Natayo na ako sa aking kinauupuan dahil tinawag na aking pangalan at nagtanong sa sarili “ANU BA ANG MAGIGING EKSPRESYON KO PAGKATAPOS NITO?”
Makalipas ang ilang oras at natapos din ako lumabas ako sa silid na iyon na nakasimangot pagkat hindi natanggap.
Lumbas ako ng opisina ng may halong inis at sama ng loob……….
Ang kwento na ito ay base sa karanasan ni Juan Dela Cruz sa kanyang paghahanap ng trabaho. ang pilipnas ay may 30 milyong walang trabaho. maraming pilipino ang nakararanas ng ganito. ang iba nagsisikap na tapusin ang kanilang pagaaral at umaasang sa bandang huli ay magkakaroon ng isang magandang trabaho. mgaraming mga newly graduate ang nahihirapang makahanap ng trabaho sa ating bansa bagamat may diskriminisasyong umiiral. anu paman ang silbi ng ating pinagaralan kung mangilan ngilan lamang ang makikinabang. ang ibang mga pilipino naman dahil sa wala ng makuhang trabaho mas ninanais pa nilang gumawa ng iba pang paraan para mabuhay, napipilitang gumawa ng karahasan para lang mabuhay. kaya hindi din masisi ang gobyerno kung bakit laganap ang krimen sa bansa.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
INTELEGENT PEOPLE
Intelligent people tend to be more Secular Current mood: satisfied Category: Religion and Philosophy
IQ and ReligionRead original aricle here.
Myth: Intelligent people tend to be more religious.Fact: Intelligent people tend to be more secular. SummaryThe broad consensus of research shows that people with higher IQs tend to be less religious, not more so.ArgumentIs it more logical to be a Christian? Is religion the natural choice of a smart person familiar with more of the evidence? Not according to a broad consensus of studies on IQ and religiosity. These studies have consistently found that the lower the IQ score, the more likely a person is to be religious. To place these studies in perspective, it is helpful to know the general religious attitudes of Americans today. According to a February 1995 Gallup poll, 96 percent of all Americans believe in God, and 88 percent affirm the importance of religion. However, the degree of religiosity within this group varies considerably. Only 35 percent can be classified as "religious," using a definition that requires them to consider religion important and attend religious services at least once a week. And a March 1994 Gallup poll found that only 20 percent of all Americans belong to that politically active group known as "Christian conservatives." The following is a review of several studies of IQ and religiosity, paraphrased and summarized from Burnham Beckwith's article, "The Effect of Intelligence on Religious Faith," Free Inquiry, Spring 1986: (1)STUDIES OF STUDENTS1. Thomas Howells, 1927Study of 461 students showed religiously conservative students "are, in general, relatively inferior in intellectual ability."2. Hilding Carlsojn, 1933Study of 215 students showed that "there is a tendency for the more intelligent undergraduate to be sympathetic toward… atheism."3. Abraham Franzblau, 1934Confirming Howells and Carlson, tested 354 Jewish children, aged 10-16. Found a negative correlation between religiosity and IQ as measured by the Terman intelligence test.4. Thomas Symington, 1935Tested 400 young people in colleges and church groups. He reported, "There is a constant positive relation in all the groups between liberal religious thinking and mental ability… There is also a constant positive relation between liberal scores and intelligence…"5. Vernon Jones, 1938Tested 381 students, concluding "a slight tendency for intelligence and liberal attitudes to go together."6. A. R. Gilliland, 1940At variance with all other studies, found "little or no relationship between intelligence and attitude toward god."7. Donald Gragg, 1942Reported an inverse correlation between 100 ACE freshman test scores and Thurstone "reality of god" scores.8. Brown and Love, 1951At the University of Denver, tested 613 male and female students. The mean test scores of non-believers was 119 points, and for believers it was 100. The non-believers ranked in the 80th percentile, and believers in the 50th. Their findings "strongly corroborate those of Howells."9. Michael Argyle, 1958Concluded that "although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs."10. Jeffrey Hadden, 1963Found no correlation between intelligence and grades. This was an anomalous finding, since GPA corresponds closely with intelligence. Other factors may have influenced the results at the University of Wisconsin.11. Young, Dustin and Holtzman, 1966Average religiosity decreased as GPA rose.12. James Trent, 1967Polled 1400 college seniors. Found little difference, but high-ability students in his sample group were over-represented.13. C. Plant and E. Minium, 1967The more intelligent students were less religious, both before entering college and after 2 years of college.14. Robert Wuthnow, 1978Of 532 students, 37 percent of Christians, 58 percent of apostates, and 53 percent of non-religious scored above average on SATs.15. Hastings and Hoge, 1967, 1974Polled 200 college students and found no significant correlations.16. Norman Poythress, 1975Mean SATs for strongly antireligious (1148), moderately anti-religious (1119), slightly antireligious (1108), and religious (1022).17. Wiebe and Fleck, 1980Studied 158 male and female Canadian university students. They reported "nonreligious S's tended to be strongly intelligent" and "more intelligent than religious S's."STUDENT BODY COMPARISONS1. Rose Goldsen, 1952Percentage of students who believe in a divine god: Harvard 30; UCLA 32; Dartmouth 35; Yale 36; Cornell 42; Wayne 43; Weslyan 43; Michigan 45; Fisk 60; Texas 62; North Carolina 68.2. National Review Study, 1970Percentage of students who believe in a Spirit or Divine God: Reed 15; Brandeis 25; Sarah Lawrence 28; Williams 36; Stanford 41; Boston U. 41; Yale 42; Howard 47; Indiana 57; Davidson 59; S. Carolina 65; Marquette 77.3. Caplovitz and Sherrow, 1977Apostasy rates rose continuously from 5 percent in "low" ranked schools to 17 percent in "high" ranked schools. 4. Niemi, Ross, and Alexander, 1978In elite schools, organized religion was judged important by only 26 percent of their students, compared with 44 percent of all students.STUDIES OF VERY-HIGH IQ GROUPS1. Terman, 1959Studied group with IQ's over 140. Of men, 10 percent held strong religious belief, of women 18 percent. Sixty-two percent of men and 57 percent of women claimed "little religious inclination" while 28 percent of the men and 23 percent of the women claimed it was "not at all important."2. Warren and Heist, 1960Found no differences among National Merit Scholars. Results may have been effected by the fact that NM scholars are not selected on the basis of intelligence or grades alone, but also on "leadership" and such like.3. Southern and Plant, 1968Studied 42 male and 30 female members of Mensa. Mensa members were much less religious in belief than the typical American college alumnus or adult.STUDIES Of SCIENTISTS1. William S. Ament, 1927C. C. Little, president of the University of Michigan, checked persons listed in Who's Who in America: "Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, and Presbyterians [who are less religious] are… far more numerous in Who's Who than would be expected on the basis of the population which they form. Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics are distinctly less numerous."Ament confirmed Little's conclusion. He noted that Unitarians, the least religious, were more than 40 times as numerous in Who's Who as in the U.S. population.2. Lehman and Witty, 1931Identified 1189 scientists found in both Who's Who (1927) and American Men of Science (1927). Only 25 percent of those listed in the latter and 50 percent of those in the former reported their religious denomination, despite the specific request to do so, under the heading of "religious denomination (if any)." Well over 90 percent of the general population claims religious affiliation. The figure of 25 percent suggests far less religiosity among scientists.Unitarians were 81.4 times as numerous among eminent scientists as non-Unitarians.3. Kelley and Fisk, 1951Found a negative (-.39) correlation between the strength of religious values and research competence. [How these were measured is unknown.]4. Ann Roe, 1953Interviewed 64 "eminent scientists, nearly all members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences or the American Philosophical Society. She reported that, while nearly all of them had religious parents and had attended Sunday school, 'now only three of these men are seriously active in church. A few others attend upon occasion, or even give some financial support to a church which they do not attend… All the others have long since dismissed religion as any guide to them, and the church plays no part in their lives… A few are militantly atheistic, but most are just not interested.'"5. Francis Bello, 1954Interviewed or questionnaired 107 nonindustrial scientists under the age of 40 judged by senior colleagues to be outstanding. Of the 87 responses, 45 percent claimed to be "agnostic or atheistic" and an additional 22 percent claimed no religious affiliation. For 20 most eminent, "the proportion who are now a-religious is considerably higher than in the entire survey group."6. Jack Chambers, 1964Questionnaired 740 US psychologists and chemists. He reported, "The highly creative men… significantly more often show either no preference for a particular religion or little or no interest in religion." Found that the most eminent psychologists showed 40 percent no preference, 16 percent for the most eminent chemists.7. Vaughan, Smith, and Sjoberg, 1965Polled 850 US physicists, zoologists, chemical engineers, and geologists listed in American Men of Science (1955) on church membership, and attendance patterns, and belief in afterlife. Of the 642 replies, 38.5 percent did not believe in an afterlife, whereas 31.8 percent did. Belief in immortality was less common among major university staff than among those employed by business, government, or minor universities. The Gallup poll taken about this time showed that two-thirds of the U.S. population believed in an afterlife, so scientists were far less religious than the typical adult.ConclusionThe consensus here is clear: more intelligent people tend not to believe in religion. And this observation is given added force when you consider that the above studies span a broad range of time, subjects and methodologies, and yet arrive at the same conclusion. This is the result even when the researchers are Christian conservatives themselves. One such researcher is George Gallup. Here are the results of a Fall 1995 Gallup poll:Percentage of respondents who agreed with the following statements: Religion is Religion can "very important "answer all or mostRespondents in their life" of today's problems"------------------------------------------------------------Attended college 53 percent 58 percentNo college 63 65Income over $50,000 48 56$30,000 - $50,000 56 62$20,000 - $30,000 56 60Under $20,000 66 66Why does this correlation exist? The first answer that comes to mind is that religious beliefs tend to be more illogical or incoherent than secular beliefs, and intelligent people tend to recognize that more quickly. But this explanation will surely be rejected by religious people, who will seek other explanations and rationalizations. A possible counter-argument is that intelligent people tend to be more successful than others. The lure of worldly success and materialism draws many of these intellectually gifted individuals away from God. After all, who needs God when you (apparently) are making it on your own?However, this argument does not withstand closer scrutiny. Most of the studies outlined above describe the religious attitudes of students, who have yet to enter the working world, much less succeed in it. Some might then argue that the most intelligent students are nonetheless succeeding in school. But "success" in school (for those who may have forgotten!) is more measured in terms of popularity, sports, physical attractiveness, personality, clothes, etc. Grades are but one of many measures of success in a young person's life -- one that is increasingly becoming less important, as many social critics point out.The simplest and most parsimonious explanation is that religion is a set of logical and factual claims, and those with the most logic and facts at their disposal are rejecting it largely on those grounds.Endnotes:1. I am indebted to Jim Tims ( jftims@borg.com ) for summarizing this article. I have edited his summary for space reasons. Those wishing to see the original text are encouraged to read "The Effect of Intelligence on Religious Faith," Free Inquiry, Spring 1986."Intelligent people tend to be more religious." http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-thinkingchristians.htm
What Religion does to People
Several of you have accused this lady of being crazy. I disagree. It's her beliefs that are out of whack, not her psychological capacities. If the Bible she believes in is literally true then she has every right to act that way. If her beliefs are correct and her family was exposed to someone with false beliefs that could lead them astray from salvation, why wouldn't a caring mother/wife go berserk?If you want to see just how bad fundamentalist arguments are, observe Ray Comfort and his insistence that bananas prove creation.
IQ and ReligionRead original aricle here.
Myth: Intelligent people tend to be more religious.Fact: Intelligent people tend to be more secular. SummaryThe broad consensus of research shows that people with higher IQs tend to be less religious, not more so.ArgumentIs it more logical to be a Christian? Is religion the natural choice of a smart person familiar with more of the evidence? Not according to a broad consensus of studies on IQ and religiosity. These studies have consistently found that the lower the IQ score, the more likely a person is to be religious. To place these studies in perspective, it is helpful to know the general religious attitudes of Americans today. According to a February 1995 Gallup poll, 96 percent of all Americans believe in God, and 88 percent affirm the importance of religion. However, the degree of religiosity within this group varies considerably. Only 35 percent can be classified as "religious," using a definition that requires them to consider religion important and attend religious services at least once a week. And a March 1994 Gallup poll found that only 20 percent of all Americans belong to that politically active group known as "Christian conservatives." The following is a review of several studies of IQ and religiosity, paraphrased and summarized from Burnham Beckwith's article, "The Effect of Intelligence on Religious Faith," Free Inquiry, Spring 1986: (1)STUDIES OF STUDENTS1. Thomas Howells, 1927Study of 461 students showed religiously conservative students "are, in general, relatively inferior in intellectual ability."2. Hilding Carlsojn, 1933Study of 215 students showed that "there is a tendency for the more intelligent undergraduate to be sympathetic toward… atheism."3. Abraham Franzblau, 1934Confirming Howells and Carlson, tested 354 Jewish children, aged 10-16. Found a negative correlation between religiosity and IQ as measured by the Terman intelligence test.4. Thomas Symington, 1935Tested 400 young people in colleges and church groups. He reported, "There is a constant positive relation in all the groups between liberal religious thinking and mental ability… There is also a constant positive relation between liberal scores and intelligence…"5. Vernon Jones, 1938Tested 381 students, concluding "a slight tendency for intelligence and liberal attitudes to go together."6. A. R. Gilliland, 1940At variance with all other studies, found "little or no relationship between intelligence and attitude toward god."7. Donald Gragg, 1942Reported an inverse correlation between 100 ACE freshman test scores and Thurstone "reality of god" scores.8. Brown and Love, 1951At the University of Denver, tested 613 male and female students. The mean test scores of non-believers was 119 points, and for believers it was 100. The non-believers ranked in the 80th percentile, and believers in the 50th. Their findings "strongly corroborate those of Howells."9. Michael Argyle, 1958Concluded that "although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs."10. Jeffrey Hadden, 1963Found no correlation between intelligence and grades. This was an anomalous finding, since GPA corresponds closely with intelligence. Other factors may have influenced the results at the University of Wisconsin.11. Young, Dustin and Holtzman, 1966Average religiosity decreased as GPA rose.12. James Trent, 1967Polled 1400 college seniors. Found little difference, but high-ability students in his sample group were over-represented.13. C. Plant and E. Minium, 1967The more intelligent students were less religious, both before entering college and after 2 years of college.14. Robert Wuthnow, 1978Of 532 students, 37 percent of Christians, 58 percent of apostates, and 53 percent of non-religious scored above average on SATs.15. Hastings and Hoge, 1967, 1974Polled 200 college students and found no significant correlations.16. Norman Poythress, 1975Mean SATs for strongly antireligious (1148), moderately anti-religious (1119), slightly antireligious (1108), and religious (1022).17. Wiebe and Fleck, 1980Studied 158 male and female Canadian university students. They reported "nonreligious S's tended to be strongly intelligent" and "more intelligent than religious S's."STUDENT BODY COMPARISONS1. Rose Goldsen, 1952Percentage of students who believe in a divine god: Harvard 30; UCLA 32; Dartmouth 35; Yale 36; Cornell 42; Wayne 43; Weslyan 43; Michigan 45; Fisk 60; Texas 62; North Carolina 68.2. National Review Study, 1970Percentage of students who believe in a Spirit or Divine God: Reed 15; Brandeis 25; Sarah Lawrence 28; Williams 36; Stanford 41; Boston U. 41; Yale 42; Howard 47; Indiana 57; Davidson 59; S. Carolina 65; Marquette 77.3. Caplovitz and Sherrow, 1977Apostasy rates rose continuously from 5 percent in "low" ranked schools to 17 percent in "high" ranked schools. 4. Niemi, Ross, and Alexander, 1978In elite schools, organized religion was judged important by only 26 percent of their students, compared with 44 percent of all students.STUDIES OF VERY-HIGH IQ GROUPS1. Terman, 1959Studied group with IQ's over 140. Of men, 10 percent held strong religious belief, of women 18 percent. Sixty-two percent of men and 57 percent of women claimed "little religious inclination" while 28 percent of the men and 23 percent of the women claimed it was "not at all important."2. Warren and Heist, 1960Found no differences among National Merit Scholars. Results may have been effected by the fact that NM scholars are not selected on the basis of intelligence or grades alone, but also on "leadership" and such like.3. Southern and Plant, 1968Studied 42 male and 30 female members of Mensa. Mensa members were much less religious in belief than the typical American college alumnus or adult.STUDIES Of SCIENTISTS1. William S. Ament, 1927C. C. Little, president of the University of Michigan, checked persons listed in Who's Who in America: "Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, and Presbyterians [who are less religious] are… far more numerous in Who's Who than would be expected on the basis of the population which they form. Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics are distinctly less numerous."Ament confirmed Little's conclusion. He noted that Unitarians, the least religious, were more than 40 times as numerous in Who's Who as in the U.S. population.2. Lehman and Witty, 1931Identified 1189 scientists found in both Who's Who (1927) and American Men of Science (1927). Only 25 percent of those listed in the latter and 50 percent of those in the former reported their religious denomination, despite the specific request to do so, under the heading of "religious denomination (if any)." Well over 90 percent of the general population claims religious affiliation. The figure of 25 percent suggests far less religiosity among scientists.Unitarians were 81.4 times as numerous among eminent scientists as non-Unitarians.3. Kelley and Fisk, 1951Found a negative (-.39) correlation between the strength of religious values and research competence. [How these were measured is unknown.]4. Ann Roe, 1953Interviewed 64 "eminent scientists, nearly all members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences or the American Philosophical Society. She reported that, while nearly all of them had religious parents and had attended Sunday school, 'now only three of these men are seriously active in church. A few others attend upon occasion, or even give some financial support to a church which they do not attend… All the others have long since dismissed religion as any guide to them, and the church plays no part in their lives… A few are militantly atheistic, but most are just not interested.'"5. Francis Bello, 1954Interviewed or questionnaired 107 nonindustrial scientists under the age of 40 judged by senior colleagues to be outstanding. Of the 87 responses, 45 percent claimed to be "agnostic or atheistic" and an additional 22 percent claimed no religious affiliation. For 20 most eminent, "the proportion who are now a-religious is considerably higher than in the entire survey group."6. Jack Chambers, 1964Questionnaired 740 US psychologists and chemists. He reported, "The highly creative men… significantly more often show either no preference for a particular religion or little or no interest in religion." Found that the most eminent psychologists showed 40 percent no preference, 16 percent for the most eminent chemists.7. Vaughan, Smith, and Sjoberg, 1965Polled 850 US physicists, zoologists, chemical engineers, and geologists listed in American Men of Science (1955) on church membership, and attendance patterns, and belief in afterlife. Of the 642 replies, 38.5 percent did not believe in an afterlife, whereas 31.8 percent did. Belief in immortality was less common among major university staff than among those employed by business, government, or minor universities. The Gallup poll taken about this time showed that two-thirds of the U.S. population believed in an afterlife, so scientists were far less religious than the typical adult.ConclusionThe consensus here is clear: more intelligent people tend not to believe in religion. And this observation is given added force when you consider that the above studies span a broad range of time, subjects and methodologies, and yet arrive at the same conclusion. This is the result even when the researchers are Christian conservatives themselves. One such researcher is George Gallup. Here are the results of a Fall 1995 Gallup poll:Percentage of respondents who agreed with the following statements: Religion is Religion can "very important "answer all or mostRespondents in their life" of today's problems"------------------------------------------------------------Attended college 53 percent 58 percentNo college 63 65Income over $50,000 48 56$30,000 - $50,000 56 62$20,000 - $30,000 56 60Under $20,000 66 66Why does this correlation exist? The first answer that comes to mind is that religious beliefs tend to be more illogical or incoherent than secular beliefs, and intelligent people tend to recognize that more quickly. But this explanation will surely be rejected by religious people, who will seek other explanations and rationalizations. A possible counter-argument is that intelligent people tend to be more successful than others. The lure of worldly success and materialism draws many of these intellectually gifted individuals away from God. After all, who needs God when you (apparently) are making it on your own?However, this argument does not withstand closer scrutiny. Most of the studies outlined above describe the religious attitudes of students, who have yet to enter the working world, much less succeed in it. Some might then argue that the most intelligent students are nonetheless succeeding in school. But "success" in school (for those who may have forgotten!) is more measured in terms of popularity, sports, physical attractiveness, personality, clothes, etc. Grades are but one of many measures of success in a young person's life -- one that is increasingly becoming less important, as many social critics point out.The simplest and most parsimonious explanation is that religion is a set of logical and factual claims, and those with the most logic and facts at their disposal are rejecting it largely on those grounds.Endnotes:1. I am indebted to Jim Tims ( jftims@borg.com ) for summarizing this article. I have edited his summary for space reasons. Those wishing to see the original text are encouraged to read "The Effect of Intelligence on Religious Faith," Free Inquiry, Spring 1986."Intelligent people tend to be more religious." http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-thinkingchristians.htm
What Religion does to People
Several of you have accused this lady of being crazy. I disagree. It's her beliefs that are out of whack, not her psychological capacities. If the Bible she believes in is literally true then she has every right to act that way. If her beliefs are correct and her family was exposed to someone with false beliefs that could lead them astray from salvation, why wouldn't a caring mother/wife go berserk?If you want to see just how bad fundamentalist arguments are, observe Ray Comfort and his insistence that bananas prove creation.
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