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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Wonderful that you are trying to broaden your mind. I caution that you stay away from stereotypes and overgeneralizations.
Priests, monks, brothers, and sisters, can be examples of how that is not the case. Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the father of modern day genetics, but he was a priest working in a garden.
Many Chinese Buddhists wrote of being one with nature and the universe by doing simple tasks in the fields.
Thomas Aquinas was quite a learned man, philosopher, and quite religious.
Quite honestly, God is where you decide you find it or don't find it.
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The whole premise of the statement I made was based on generalizations, and i'm aware there are exceptions to every rule etc and so forth. Also I think you react way too strongly about generalizations in general, i'm not saying that 100% of the people who would qualify under the generalizations I made is the case or even close to that. I'm simply saying it could be as small as a 1% greater likelihood within those groups I was thinking about could be more likely to be an atheist or believe in God etc.
Psychology has always been a HUGE interest to me, so part of how i think relates to that. As someone who studies something in terms of cause and effect and things of that nature you have to be able to make generalizations in order to learn how people behave and the odds of all of the different results that are possible. For example, I don't know if you know anything about the Chris Benoit situation. Well a former WWE champion named the Ultimate Warrior went on to a news program and gave his opinion on the whole situation. At the end of the show The Ultimate Warrior said, "there's no excuse for what Chris Benoit did" and basically said trying to blame it on drugs or roid rage is bullshit, that the man was simply a monster. Okay yes if Benoit did commit these crimes I would agree he's a monster, but if you're trying to understand what went on you have to look for possible things that attributed to Benoit's actions such as those drugs he was taking so that in the future you can possibly avoid that situation by getting something done about it. So really Warrior's opinion that Benoit is a monster is fine and dandy, however when he doesn't have an opinion or give it on the possible influence the drugs had on this whole entire ordeal that simply ends all attempts to try to understand and learn from this situation in order to prevent such a horrendous accident as this in the future.
What i'm trying to get at here is, basically saying all generalizations are evil simply stunts the ability to gain more knowledge and a greater understanding of the topic at hand. I'm sorry if you're sensetive to generalations, honestly, but I think they have to be made, and considered in relation to a better understanding about things.