Re: Question for atheists...

From: Jason (jason_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:09:12 -0800

That's an interesting question but why did you ask the question in
a newsgroups related to science, law, and medicine? In the future,
ask questions related to religion in religion related newsgroups.

In article <p16s31pnf2cat1djepqop0thml23b4vclo@news>, qstn <qu@est.ion> wrote:

> One of the criticisms that atheists often have against believers is
> that only dumb/foolish/uneducated/low class type people would believe
> in God or participate in religion. How do atheists reconcile the fact
> that many highly educated, professional, wealthy individuals (eg.
> doctors, lawyers, CEOs, some scientists, etc.) believe in God and
> participate in (and are the biggest benefactors of) organized
> religion?
>
> These are people who, given their wealth and power, could do and have
> anything in today's world and feel self-sufficient enough to not need
> to believe in a "fantasy figure in the sky". And yet they still
> believe. How do atheists explain this? 

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