Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Jesus Painting Fail" video.

  1. To be fair, I think he was referring to catholicism today, not during Galileo's time.
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  2. "Catholics fully accept mainstream science. it's fundies (who are protestant) who do not." I would put it like this: The Catholic church cave in to pressure when their beliefs are subjected to heavy critique in order to save their reputation, but remain firmly on unscientific beliefs that have not yet reached the spotlights.
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  3. I'd say eg. young earth creationism, denial of evolution, faith healing, excercising glossolalia, mormonism, warning about approaching rupture, blaming natural catastrophies on people's sins, hellhouses, etc. ...are just as responsible for Christians bad name. These practices are not necessarily Catholic.
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  4. "typically when people become atheists they substitute one set of beliefs for another (or else they hang onto most of what they believed before)" And this you base on... ? Let's assume it's true for the sake of the argument. This substitute is not necessarily of superstitious nature. So going from catholicism to atheism, some remain superstitious, while others don't... then, wouldn't we expect the average to drop?
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  5. While I admit that Atheists are in no way immune to superstitious beliefs, the Roman Catholic Church require a certain set of them: the transmutation of bread and wine into flesh and blood, sacrament (alternative medicine), divine guidence (ESP), resurrection (similar to reincarnation), god in his three forms (including holy "ghost"), exorcism (conspiracy theory), and many more. I find it quite likely that this required level of superstition is above the Atheist average.
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  6. We're talking general superstition here, not theism. An atheist can have superstitious beliefs that are not of theistic/deistic nature.
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  7. Smarter? Maybe not. Less superstitious? Yes. From my experiance, religious institutions generally tend to discourage critical thinking.
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