does a male god = lower intelligence for the believers in it?
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I don't think worshiping a male god without the female aspect makes your IQ lower.  But these folks can be off-balance, and they're usually not in tune with the things going on around them.
685104
Because they have a higher IQ in religion.
558227
Yes there is evidence as others have pointed out.It's evidence if one is really trying to understand.\nI believe God's image is that of a man because in most societies man represents strength,protection,wisdom and leadership.(Note:I said"represent".I realize there is a whole other discussion in that statement but we will just stick with the God question!)\nHowever,there are passage in the Bible that describe God's love for us with such tender and compassion,I actually thought God was a woman!I can not express the torture I put myself through trying to grapple with that concept.I wanted help but the religious leaders I knew would not tolerate such a blasphemous statement as"you know what? I believe God is actually a woman!(I grappled with this because it was such a revelation I believed I would have to be the one to bring the church kicking and screaming into my new understanding of God.Thereby having to shed light on centuries of darkness.And if you have ever tried to shed light on centuries of darkness you know what a daunting and thankless task it can be.You heard what they did to Jesus,right?)"It was a woman pastor in a Presbyterian church,Ms Carolyn Fairless<who helped me resolve my struggle.She mentioned God has no genitalia.As a complete being God created two wholes,Adam and Eve,to make a whole.In a perfect world Adam would be the perfect compliment to Eve.And vise verse that relationship between the two produces love and as was mentioned God is love.Ithank we use gender to get a handle on God because God is more than we can really understand with our imperfect minds.We have an idea of who God is and what he does but it's nothing as compared to the reality.(I think!)
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Dont compare God to the foolishness of man. Sometimes you can find God in the most unlikely of places, and sometime those that say they are Godly men are the farthest from God of all men. This isnt Gods fault. Dont blame him for the way mankind may behave. :)
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intelligence isnt faith.\n\nyep he was a sinner.
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Nope.  I was born female, raised as such and have tried to live my life according to God's laws.\n\nLook, I know God must have a sense of humor, but after three children I really don't think He's going to say "by the way, you're really a guy."
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RELIGIONS DAMAGE ALL MANKIND'S INTELLIGENCE,\nNOT JUST WOMEN'S!
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No the ability and depth of belief or faith is the same among the worshippers in different religions. \n\nThe opposite of demonstrated truth or empirical science, is revealed truth or faith.\n\nAll the devotees of a religion have a belief in something greater than themselves and their community. This greater being is normally their god or gods. The believers' faith shapes their actions and their society. Most believers are so convinced that only their group knows the truth that they will kill others who disagree.\n\nBlaise Pascal said: "There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man that only God can fill." From the number of different religions around it seems that the ability to believe in something unprovable or abstract is inherent in every human. \n\nThe only religion that I can think of that differed slightly from the others was the Ancient Romans who had contracts with their deities. If the deity did not perform according to their contract with Rome then the malfactors temple would be closed and a new god installed.\n\nThomas Aquinas in his  "On Sacred Doctrine" said something along the lines that the object of belief must be true because the faithful can believe in their god.\n\nHe splits up acceptance of a faith into:\nknowledge that reason affords\nRevelation  of the supernatural end\nSalvation which they must tend by their voluntary acts\n\nThe different faiths start off with a basic knowledge, which is built up into a theology. Whether the starting knowledge is:\na "holy" book like the Koran, Bible, Book of Mormon etc. , or a "holy" spot like a Sacred Grove, or \nobservations of the seasons and astronomical events, or\nOnastic revelations to a mystic\n the end result is that a religion develops.\n\nMost political systems are not formally recognised as religions but have believers without the trappings of a central godhead.
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I agree with you.  You cannot use logic to figure out All Powerful Super Natural God.\nIsaiah 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.\nBlessings:  Kaitlynn
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God has no gender. That is a human condition.
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No. Because all people long ago believe in God and spirits etc. But there are God-haters who worship evil spirits. \n\nRomans1\n\n 18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. \n 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. \n\n 24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. \n\n 26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. \n\n 28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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The truth is no one really knows if God is a woman or a man. In the bible it does refer to God as He. However, one must realize that the bible was written by men. They brought their patriarchal views to the table and put them in the book. Men are fragile creatures who are afraid of what they don't understand. There was no way a that those men who wrote the bible would have actually admitted that God was a woman even if they knew different because they would loose that power over their wives and slaves.
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Your "she" made me laugh. Indeed, the idea of God being a male is in everyone's mind, although we know he doesn't need to be any gender. \n\nYour question could be "Who programmed God?"\nI don't think at all that way, but respect your original question and smile.... ;-)
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I think some people seek a higher purpose or reason for living. Others just think religion is stupid.\n\nPeople with more education tend to be less religious. Is there a relationship with intelligence? Who knows?\n\nMy guess is "hard wired", but upbringing is part of it.
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I think that God is both. I think that he is a man and a woman. He made people in his image. If we are all made from his image  - though some may argue that Adam was made in his image and Eve from Adam ( Eve taken from Adam would also be in God's image...follow the thought process) - then he would have to be a higher being. One of both genders, separating them into two for the purpose of carrying on the human race. Now, as to why I referred to God as a He, it is simply proper grammar, and easier - and more correct - than he/she.
558681
at least retards have an excuse for being ignorant. most religious people are not technically retarded. they're just not thinking very much.
667487
Humans have almost always looked to one god or another to help them explain things they could not understand as well as to use to control the masses around them ... don't think that the "christain" god is anything other than a new god on the block ... there have always been gods for as long as there have been men and yes, they are the creations of our minds and not the other way around ...