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RE: I will state again....
I have a friend like that – a Arizona Biblical die hard, but also an excellent electronics engineer who understands a lot of science and the mathematics that go with it.
He told me that He believed in God first, and then the Bible, and then he read the Bible, and then he believed that it was all literally so because it say so in the Bible. He even believes in Noah and Jonah, the two absolute impossibles that any sane person would have to automatically rule out from literal truth the moment he hears them.
I think some smart people are able to turn off their intelligence when it comes to religion. Perhaps it is psychological, a fear of Hell or something.
Ability to Deactivate Logic is Bizarre by VnutZ
Perhaps it is psychological, a fear of Hell or something.
Most definitely … what better system of preventing “unconversion” than years of brainwashing that it will damn you to an eternal hell of suffering. When I opted to ditch religion as a kid, that was the most worrisome part to me … what if heaven was real and I was damned and never saw my parents again. But I just kept reasoning with myself and eventually was able to cast all that aside as pure rubbish – then the world got brighter, colors more vibrant etc. etc.
I have a friend like that – a Arizona Biblical die hard, but also an excellent electronics engineer who understands a lot of science and the mathematics that go with it.
Unfortunately I keep coming across too many people [friends included] that go to the extreme you mentioned. And they’re part of the Intelligence Community. Makes it real hard to accept their logical analysis sometimes knowing they can completely shut-it-off on demand to believe the Earth is 6000 years old and that dinosaurs are a trick of the devil.