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In reply to the discussion: Are thinking skills generally absent among theists? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)But to reply back at you as if you'd responded yourself in a less condescending way, there's a reason why people who are steeped totally in religion and spend most of their reading on the Bible are unable to understand things like global warming. It's not something that can be explained quickly or easily. And it's why they are so bamboozled by Fox News and all of the rest of the right wing so-called news: those people claim to explain everything quickly and easily. Nuance is totally lost on them.
Theologians and other serious students do of course read a great deal more than the Bible. They immerse themselves in dense, difficult texts that take a lot of thinking about. I took a number of philosophy classes a long time back and for a while was tempted to major in that field.
But too often even those are reduced to one sentence or phrase. Actually reading the essay Descartes wrote in which he concludes, after careful analysis, that he knows he exists because he can think is incredibly rewarding. Just to parrot the phrase "I think, therefore I am" misses almost the entire point.