Intelligence: Gift or Curse?

[hero of time]

According to Religion, Intelligence is evil. God did not want man to think for himself, to be servant to God (AKA the Church who taxes them to hell). So intelligence is a curse according to all religions.

It is a gift. Anything that allows mankind to stay above animals is a gift. With Intelligence there is progress, invention of tools and technology, the more progress, the more ease of use we can have.

By 2200 humans should never work again. That is assuming the world doesn't end before then or revert into another dark ages.

i disagree on the the god didnt want man to think for himself ive read the bible god wanted us to have a free will

[Casanova[OCAU]]

i disagree on the the god didnt want man to think for himself ive read the bible god wanted us to have a free will

Yeap. Free will of accepting his infinte love or die and suffer in hell for all eternity. Does anyone else fail to see the irony here about the all loving, all encompassing god resorting to fear mongering?

I think as most intelligent people mostly do, religion should be taken with a grain of salt. You really need to sift between the timeless concepts such as tit for tat, love thy neighbour, etc, from the dont have sex before marriage, dont use contraception, etc which fits into the social structure of the time.

We fortunatly/unfortunatly arent married when we're 12 anymore.