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Why do uneducated people think this stuff is real?


Uneducated people (Christians, mostly) believe that the stories in these fictional movies are real. Why is that? Obviously, there's no such thing as demons. Are uneducated people simply unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality?

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Another atheist dick who sits behind a computer all day looking down on others because he thinks he's smarter when all he is is a joke. You're not impressing anyone with your fake intellectualism, you know that right?

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My great grandmother was a demon, and was always telling me, "Those people next door just won't believe in me, no matter how many times I rattle that d#mn attic with these chains." I know demons are real, so don't go telling me I'm uneducated!

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My great grandmother was a demon, and was always telling me, "Those people next door just won't believe in me, no matter how many times I rattle that d#mn attic with these chains." I know demons are real, so don't go telling me I'm uneducated!


LMAO. Best post in this thread.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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They've been conditioned to believe in it. Women tend to believe in the supernatural more than men because they're stupid.

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Wow. Doucheness on multiple levels.

This signature really brings the room together, Does It Not?

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The OP started off with snide, condencending remarks against a group of people (Christians) before spiraling into an all-out attack mocking them and calling them names in a display of "I'm superior" arrogance. He started out with an extremely offensive post that went into full intolerance and bigotry mode.
Please don't feed the trolls that come on here strictly to anger people or spread their misery.

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Uneducated people (Christians, mostly) believe that the stories in these fictional movies are real. Why is that? Obviously, there's no such thing as demons. Are uneducated people simply unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality?


I presume you believe yourself to be educated and as an educated person you must realise that you don't know everything. I am also an educated person I am not religious but as part of my education I learned to respect other peoples faiths even if I don't believe in them. You clearly show your ignorance and more likely your petty hate towards Christians if you believe that they are not educated members of all religions are educated and I can guarantee certain members will be able to run intellectual circles around both you and I.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock

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...and I can guarantee certain members will be able to run intellectual circles around both you and I.


Do you perhaps mean "around you and me"? Of course someone who is incapable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality might be able to run intellectual circles around you. You don't even know basic grammar.

Belief in an invisible, omnipotent, insecure, homicidal deity automatically disqualifies a person from being "intellectual," just like having Ebola disqualifies a person from being in perfect health.

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I will except that I can make a slight mistake in grammar especially after a very long day and posting in the early morning. However while I can except a mistake in grammar please tell me does your parents acknowledge the mistake they obviously made with birth control when your mother gave birth to someone as close minded and disrespectful as you? Yes I am sure that people like Werner Arber and Stephen Carter are easily my intellectual superior, but please tell me do you really think that your intellect is on their level?



To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock

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Look, it's "accept" not "except." But it's okay, grammatical mistakes aren't a sign of intelligence, to be honest.

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I would say that Christians could be more susceptible to believing in this sort of thing is because the stories are written in a way that is compatible with the belief system they are already involved in. Still I don't know what percentage of Christians do believe in this.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock

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Education is sometimes just "belief" by another name. Particularly in the case of things that can't be empirically tested either way.

Obviously, there's no such thing as demons.

I'm not sure how obvious it is. The "educated" conclusion has been that they exist only in fears and confirmation bias, and I'm inclined to that belief as well, but that's really because they don't fit into the dominant schema based on physical measurement of known effects (that in itself is somewhat crumbling around the edges of late). Quantum entrainment, for instance, is something we can neither measure nor repeatably demonstrate -- on the basis on which you're dismissing demons, we could similarly say it "obviously" doesn't exist. But we have to somehow incorporate it into our understanding of reality, because our mathematics require it to be there.

We know next to nothing of consciousness. It's largely uncharted, and we have no systems for either quantifying or qualifying it. How can we say what might or might not exist outside our own (limited!) awareness of ourselves?

I'm inclined myself not to believe in demons, and I personally believe there's a lot of absolute guff claimed about them (especially in religious America). But I think it's far, far too early to state categorically that they don't exist.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

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It doesn't take education, any at all actually, to be the most ignorant person. Good for you for putting that robe on.

You have spent your own time worrying about what others think - that seems to be the most ill-advised move.

Just pointing that out. Good day.

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