[philman_36]

Religion requires you to supress your intellect.
Since when?

[BikerNYC]

Since when?

I don't think it has to, but it can, like many other things in life.

Like the Cardinal refusing to look through Galileo's telescope because he knew from his faith how the moon and planets must appear (perfect) and anything he might see through a telescope that might contradict that view would be a deception.

[WarrenC]

Religion requires you to supress your intellect.

Since when?

Since never. This attitude is quite dog-eared by now and yet there are still those who imagine that rejection of religion demonstrates intellectual rigor. Some of the most brilliant minds who have ever lived have been devout Christians without ever feeling that their faith required them to "suppress" their intelligence. Quite the contrary.

[walkingdead]

"since when?"

Pretty much since God said man was made from a grain of dirt, and woman made from one of Adams ribs.... not to mention no loving God would put Democrats on his Earth.... teeheehee

[Phantom Lord]

Religion requires you to supress your intellect.
Since when?

Your kidding right? Ever heard of Galileo? The list is long.

[miloklancy]

Any Religious belief system forces one to at least suppress some intellectual doubt about the nature of said belief system. For example Christianity and Islam both say that their religious deity is one being, hence this is the suppression of even envisioning multiple deities. Essentially religious belief systems are structures which seek to explain the nature of the world by somehow assuming superior knowledge to those outside a given religion. Unless you believe in science fiction religious people have no more information about the nature of the world than anyone else really does, they just assume they are right and that by believing they won't go hell after they die.