The Rambling Corkgirl

I read some interesting things over the holidays and one was a claim that a belief in gods is somehow a sign of intellectual inferiority. Now the writer was an idiot but his comment garnered a chorus of guarded and not so guarded agreement from certain factions within pagan fora who have adopted the latest fad in Paganism, following on from the hilarious "pagans who aren't pagans", namely, pagans who don't believe in gods, having transcended "all that."
Now, while Richard Dawkins can string together quite an interesting argument in favour of religion being a pain in the hole, and while I think he definitely has a point, even he lets down the side of intellectual rigour in some of his refusals to acknowledge the rights of others to belief. No one should allow their personal bias to cloud their judgement to the extent that they cannot allow any logical refutation or wilfully misunderstand the refutation of their points, as happened when he spoke to a Protestant bishop about the possibility of God coexisting with Science. And if even Dawkins (a great man, imo) can get it wrong, forgive me for not falling down in shame at my lack of intellect as pointed out by some pseudo pagans.

A few thoughts occur - firstly if you don;t like paganism and pagan religions (note the plural, btw) then go join other fora and go call yourself something else. Secondly, just because some believers in pagan gods are idiots please note there are plenty of paths that demand a lot more intellectual rigor than simply snarking at other people. And finally, why are you so afraid of the Gods? :) they really aren't all that interested in you!