Every belief attracts the full spectrum of intelligence somehow, except super niche beliefs like neoplatonism, which are just kind of too obscure for dumb people to stumble on
Just on the whole wrong. Some beliefs attract more intelligent people, or some beliefs have justifications that intelligent people are more likely to agree with. Neoplatonism has just as many midwits and morons following it today thanks to the internet as any other obscure belief.
Well with atheism there have been many prominent ones like Einstein. There just aren't any more because there are no intellectuals left period (yes, including here.)
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And Einstein's intelligence was completely relegated to science, he was not a universal genius. Of course there are plenty of intelligent atheists, but I think more often than not the greatest minds are not inclined to it.
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I don't know, he dabbled in philosophy, describing himself once as a Kantian, which is funny because people think he refuted Kant.
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Sadly Einstein was a pretty bad midwit outside of science. There's no resentment or ulterior motivation here, his thoughts outside of science (and sometimes even in science) was often quite shallow and embarrassing.
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Well he was admittedly also a socialist so I concede.
Euler, Newton and Leibniz are IQ-mogged by the average Chinese savant. you only remember them because they came earlier and thus had it easier and also you mention them because they help you defend your moronic christcuck viewpoint. if they were born in more recent times they would have become atheists just like anyone with a high IQ but they would also have been non-entities
If you honestly think there are more great minds who had no appreciation for the Bible than those who thought it a great work you don't belong on a literature board. Your historical knowledge must be totally nonexistent.
Joyce said the most spiritually important works to him were the Bible and the Divine Comedy. Irreverence in his work has to do with dealing with the crisis of faith in modernity, not with a negative outlook on the Bible
On a sidenote, this book is too expensive these days. It needs a reprint. The original Jerusalem Bible made in the 50s. One of the Stylist editors was Tolkien while Dali did the watercolors.
Euler, Newton and Leibniz are IQ-mogged by the average Chinese savant. you only remember them because they came earlier and thus had it easier and also you mention them because they help you defend your moronic christcuck viewpoint. if they were born in more recent times they would have become atheists just like anyone with a high IQ but they would also have been non-entities
Atheists all have this moronic complex about their own intelligence that is entirely unwarranted and so obviously some weird cope, this post being a typical example of such delusions.
The actor class is a priesthood, prostitutes elevated to the rank of pontifs, and it is only to be expected that they find alternative sources of morality threatening. Since the bible forbids child sacrifice, it must be evil--since his religion demands it.
The Bible is such a diverse work. A lot of it is just exhausting and irrelevant propaganda for some stupid tribal feud between israelites and someone else, a lot of it is just dry info dumps, a lot is incredible literature and powerful poetry, often with great moral or spiritual content
I wouldn't even disagree with this Cox person.
The Bible is solid if you understand it for what it is >the section labeled "wisdom and poetry" is typically praise, not hard fact, cite those only for moral reasons and not ontological arguments >fallible humans wrote accounts of what they experienced with divine guidance but often without precise words to describe what they had seen
But whatever interpretation modern Christians have cooked up is at best questionable. I don't even want to associate with Christians. >the call to be like Christ and follow him and believe in him >Too hard >the call to follow Christ and believe in him >Still too hard >the call to believe in Christ >Yeah there you go, I can do that
The Bible is really mostly just weird Canaanite desert Black person myths and tales. There's some alright stuff in there that actually provides some decent advice and insight into life like the book of Proverbs or Sinach, but it's mostly overshadowed by ancient mythological moronation (also none of the things in the bible actually happened or are true, which is a big slight against it).
>also none of the things in the bible actually happened or are true, which is a big slight against it
I disagree. I think the interpretations that you hear from people give are misinformed dogshit. But I like David Rohl. He has a great analysis in "The Lost Testament" that makes it all seem more than plausible.
Research should never start and end with the Bible but the quest to be holier than though really stunted believers intellectually
And just like that the anti-christ reveals himself.
Let's see, on the list of Bible lovers:
Euler
Newton
Leibnitz
Godel
and many other geniuses...
Or:
Literally, who?
Regretful Tardkins
Hateful Harari
Flatulent Hitchens
Impotent Russell
and many other cringemasters...
I guess I'll stick with Bible lovers.
Maybe at a certain ridiculously high IQ it flips back to hatred and the midwits were right all along.
Contrary to fourchin memes, belief in the Bible is not a bell curve distribution, it’s a straight downward trend as you get higher in IQ
Every belief attracts the full spectrum of intelligence somehow, except super niche beliefs like neoplatonism, which are just kind of too obscure for dumb people to stumble on
Just on the whole wrong. Some beliefs attract more intelligent people, or some beliefs have justifications that intelligent people are more likely to agree with. Neoplatonism has just as many midwits and morons following it today thanks to the internet as any other obscure belief.
Well with atheism there have been many prominent ones like Einstein. There just aren't any more because there are no intellectuals left period (yes, including here.)
And Einstein's intelligence was completely relegated to science, he was not a universal genius. Of course there are plenty of intelligent atheists, but I think more often than not the greatest minds are not inclined to it.
I don't know, he dabbled in philosophy, describing himself once as a Kantian, which is funny because people think he refuted Kant.
Sadly Einstein was a pretty bad midwit outside of science. There's no resentment or ulterior motivation here, his thoughts outside of science (and sometimes even in science) was often quite shallow and embarrassing.
Well he was admittedly also a socialist so I concede.
Bible lovers:
Trump
Putin
David Duke
Jordan Peterson
Bible haters:
Einstein
Nietzsche
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
If you honestly think there are more great minds who had no appreciation for the Bible than those who thought it a great work you don't belong on a literature board. Your historical knowledge must be totally nonexistent.
>being so oblivious to own biases
It's nothing about bias, even Dawkins recognises the literary merit of the Bible. Brian Cox looks like an idiot here.
Where did Joyce say he hated the bible?
Joyce said the most spiritually important works to him were the Bible and the Divine Comedy. Irreverence in his work has to do with dealing with the crisis of faith in modernity, not with a negative outlook on the Bible
Most of the people you listed weren't even "bible haters." James Joyce least of all.
>Nietzsche
>James Joyce
>Bible haters
Nietzsche enjoyed the OT. Read Zur Genealogie der Moral
Brian Cox is a homosexual. Of course he hates it.
Newton > Einstein
Kierkegaard > Nietzsche
Dostoevsky > Joyce
Salvador Dali > Picasso
On a sidenote, this book is too expensive these days. It needs a reprint. The original Jerusalem Bible made in the 50s. One of the Stylist editors was Tolkien while Dali did the watercolors.
he's correct
Euler, Newton and Leibniz are IQ-mogged by the average Chinese savant. you only remember them because they came earlier and thus had it easier and also you mention them because they help you defend your moronic christcuck viewpoint. if they were born in more recent times they would have become atheists just like anyone with a high IQ but they would also have been non-entities
Atheists all have this moronic complex about their own intelligence that is entirely unwarranted and so obviously some weird cope, this post being a typical example of such delusions.
You mean the chink savant who dies in a factory accident lmao
lol imagine being this moronic
it has to be bait
The actor class is a priesthood, prostitutes elevated to the rank of pontifs, and it is only to be expected that they find alternative sources of morality threatening. Since the bible forbids child sacrifice, it must be evil--since his religion demands it.
He wouldn't say that about the Quran or Talmud. He is a coward, a fraudulent Shakespearian with no true appreciation of English literature.
The Bible is such a diverse work. A lot of it is just exhausting and irrelevant propaganda for some stupid tribal feud between israelites and someone else, a lot of it is just dry info dumps, a lot is incredible literature and powerful poetry, often with great moral or spiritual content
Literally who?
The captain in super troopers
the bible is a math textbook and anyone who doubts a single word of it is a space criminal
I wouldn't even disagree with this Cox person.
The Bible is solid if you understand it for what it is
>the section labeled "wisdom and poetry" is typically praise, not hard fact, cite those only for moral reasons and not ontological arguments
>fallible humans wrote accounts of what they experienced with divine guidance but often without precise words to describe what they had seen
But whatever interpretation modern Christians have cooked up is at best questionable. I don't even want to associate with Christians.
>the call to be like Christ and follow him and believe in him
>Too hard
>the call to follow Christ and believe in him
>Still too hard
>the call to believe in Christ
>Yeah there you go, I can do that
The Bible is really mostly just weird Canaanite desert Black person myths and tales. There's some alright stuff in there that actually provides some decent advice and insight into life like the book of Proverbs or Sinach, but it's mostly overshadowed by ancient mythological moronation (also none of the things in the bible actually happened or are true, which is a big slight against it).
low test, low iq post
combo breaker
>also none of the things in the bible actually happened or are true, which is a big slight against it
I disagree. I think the interpretations that you hear from people give are misinformed dogshit. But I like David Rohl. He has a great analysis in "The Lost Testament" that makes it all seem more than plausible.
Research should never start and end with the Bible but the quest to be holier than though really stunted believers intellectually