# Presidents and religion - smart enough to lie, or dumb enough to believe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidents-and-religion-smart-enough-to-lie-or-dumb-enough-to-believe/577872 "2011-04-10T15:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 53
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidents-and-religion-smart-enough-to-lie-or-dumb-enough-to-believe/577872/53 "2011-04-11T05:32:58Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > Well I don’t think anyone is saying that 2,000 years ago you were stupid to believe this stuff, maybe not even 500 years ago, but now? pretty much. Did you not read what I wrote? I belong to a religion that doesn’t think the world was created in six days. Oh, yeah, did I mention I was Jewish? > [@](#): > > The word you are looking for is _literature_. Your use of \*literacy \*is ironic. No, the word I am looking for is _literacy_. I question your reading comprehension skills. After you’ve mastered something beyond a rudimentary level of “See Spot Run”, we can talk literature. Curious…how are your Biblical Hebrew skills? > [@](#): > > I can use Winnie the Pooh as a metaphor for life too, but it would be silly. > Really?, you think I’m an Atheist but I believe in Ghosts? Again, your poor reading comprehension shines. I said _some_ people. I don’t claim to know anything about your beliefs in what may be supernatural, phenomenal, or scientific. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidents-and-religion-smart-enough-to-lie-or-dumb-enough-to-believe/577872)._