Are Religious People Idiots?

[Nemra]

Religion, as I see it, was never actually about making people awaken.

It has been about making people adhere to a set of moral codes, which was believed to be a shortcut to awakening.

If all you were taught is to adhere to a certain set of rules in order to be spiritual, then those rules will seem absolute to you, which is what prevents religious people from deconstructing their beliefs.

It is delusion and it makes the process way less immediate than it already is.

What makes this so tragic is that religious people are so humbly arrogant about it.

If religious people truly deconstructed their beliefs, they would have no reason to stay religious, except for fear of being ostracized.

Edited July 22 by Nemra

[ryoko]

On 7/16/2025 at 7:07 PM, Leo Gura said:

Intelligence is very domain-specific. You can be intelligent in one area of life and a fool in another.

Few people are intelligent across the board. That requires exceptional development.

Epistemtic and metaphysical intelligence is very rare and specific because nobody teaches it. You can only develop it on your own.

I agree here. I know exceptionally intelligent people from the demographics you mentioned. But they have their limits. And I feel it's mostly just part of their survival, they are mostly defensive about their beliefs and holds them as absolute, makes their life easier.