On Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:08:49 PM UTC-6, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
On 2/16/2013 8:09 PM, m II wrote:

On 13-02-15 11:24 AM, dave wrote:



On 02/15/2013 08:26 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:

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Gimmie that Old Time Religion,,, Gimmie that Old Time Religion,,, it's

Good enough for me,,,,,,





Religion is very prevalent in the 3rd World. As atheism rises, so does

intelligence and success.





...isn't that 'as intelligence and success rise, so does atheism'?





mike







The real problem, at least in this country, is that average

intelligence is definitely _not_ rising.



I would agree with Scott Peck, who said in his late works that the

most primitive people have a simplistic, fundamentalist acceptance

of religion and its absurd myths; the more intelligent are quite

rationalistic and skeptical about religion and tend to believe that

only what they see with their eyes, and that they can understand

with their reason, is real; and the _most_ intelligent begin to

suspect that there are deep aspects of reality far beyond what our

partially-evolved minds can grasp -- aspects totally at variance and

even in contradiction to conventional religion, and yet which might

be called 'mystical' by thoroughgoing skeptics -- behind the

universe that science reveals to us.





With all good wishes,





Kevin Alfred Strom.

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Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt's book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America I think you can read that book online for free. Maybe at, http://www.archive.org or .com, whatever.