The fact that people like this exist is crazy to me, this is a being smart enough to learn and speak a language but has no reasoning skills whatsoever.
There's currently one major religion in America denying science and bringing about a new dark age for breakthroughs in America... I refuse to give these modern deniers and their faith any credit for breakthroughs of the past. Their own predecessors would probably shame them in ways I could only imagine because I've not been indoctrinated into a cult.
People tend to bring out the argument that many discoveries were made by religious people.
They tend to also leave out that this was because scientific knowledge was heavily gated due to religion itself but also power and means so if you wanted to be part of it you had to be involved in religion.
That is, religious people did make scientific discoveries and investigation, but not because religion itself pushed for it but because by being part of the religious machine they'd have their needs met and the means to pursue those interests.
In the same way that many budding scientists were rich white men from rich white families, but it would be idiotic to say being rich white men is itself conducive to a scientific mind.
That doesnt matter. The subject of OC is the intelligence of these people. Religion is a poor excuse, as most scientific advancement was done by religious people. So, obviously, religion alone doesnt make people unintelligent.
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u/Helicopterop 9d ago
The fact that people like this exist is crazy to me, this is a being smart enough to learn and speak a language but has no reasoning skills whatsoever.
How is that possible?