"Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated."

You can't be serious. No one can make such obvious logical faults like that.

What a boring pretentious opinion. Is this supposed to be intelligent? Why? Because its written that way? Its the opinion of MSNBC anchors.

I don't know about "badly educated" but I have a distaste for those three things

sports is a sweaty jock strap of a thing to love
politics is wrinkly old men who want power because they failed at everything else and people give them all the attention they need for it
religion is the better of these two but as an organized system of belief it needs to be transcended, a recognition that there are as many religions as there are human beings would drain these corrupt institutions of power and put that power back in the hands of individuals

>And they tend to back their country like they back their local team: they have a fanatical desire to win;

this seems to be a particularly American approach to politics. I've never really seen it elsewhere, not nearly on the same scale, anyway.

>Religion is generally based around faith and not skepticism and a quest for additional knowledge
This is what atheistfags really believe.

Atheists shake their heads over some hunch and unearned feelings of superiority, jettisoning vast realms of human exploration and knowledge. Those will true believe and have a commitment to faith, study as much as they possibly can and even learn other languages to better understand the message of scriptures.

>sports
CHOMSKY: Well, let me give an example. When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.

In part, this reaction may be due to my own areas of interest, but I think it's quite accurate, basically. And I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that's far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that's in fact what they do. I'm sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere.

I'm sure there are many people with commitment to faith that have never thought of learning another language. I'm not saying being an atheist is naturally superior, but faith can sometimes exist without skepticism, but atheism cannot exist without skepticism. Any religious person can be as well educated as any atheist, but there will be more people that default to religion and have it as a passion that aren't interested in learning more about other ways of thought than people that default to atheism or people that default to religion and don't have it as a passion.

>atheism cannot exist without skepticism
This is absolutely bullshit. I've met plenty of retarded atheists.

i don't think there's any correlation between education and being interested in sports. retards, highly educated people. and the mediocre are all equally interested and disinterested in sports.

i think the same applies to politics too. really the only one he's right about is religion, most very well educated people tend to be atheists nowadays.

>hurr in my hobby i am king but because im a nerd fuk i cant into sports

what a disgusting man

Passions are the passions of the badly educated.

>really the only one he's right about is religion, most very well educated people tend to be atheists nowadays
When will this meme end.

Actually, you're right, I made a mistake. I should have referred to agnosticism, not atheism. A bad education could give you a passion for atheism as well. People could be blindly atheist for a similar reason to someone being blindly religious. Agnosticism and anything like it is really the only approach to religion that I would say has to have some level of skepticism. I'll still hold that if you're badly educated you're more likely to have religion as a passion because it's easy to be enthused by without needing to think critically.

shortly after the "Christians exist on Veeky Forums.net" meme ends

>net
I do not like this meme

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

>religion
>not a quest for knowledge
I'm pretty sure my Christian girlfriend has read more than most of Veeky Forums (Well into the thousands, on classics alone), except maybe Sebastian because nobody can outread that guy.

Sounds like some brainlets ITT are too insecure to admit sports require no thought and are most popular with literally retarded Midwest white American christians who believe the earth was made in a few days

Yes, it's similar to the left/right divide, where most on the lower end are right leaning, the pseuds in the average to slightly above average are left leaning, and the very top are often right leaning again. Nothing new here.

>TFW too intelligent to have fun.

underrated post

What % of atheists do you think read more than most of Veeky Forums, and what % of Christians? Just because many educated people flock to something doesn't mean that a higher % of uneducated people don't flock to the same thing. I feel that people are taking this as a direct insult because they're religious themselves. I personally like sports but I still agree that it's a passion many people that are poorly educated are drawn to.

It's just that they are popular topics.

If you assume that the average person is badly educated, then it follows that every popular topic is likely to be enjoyed mostly by badly educated people. A deeper explanation here is bound to fail.

Did I accidentally stumble onto reddit? What a pseud comment

> I have known men, for instance, who for years have voted squarely against their interests.

kek the pseuds that say this are hilarious because the moment a white person suggests voting in the interest of their race you sperg out. You don't give a shit about the "interests" of these people.

this guy seems mean. i won't be reading his works any time soon.

Same. I'm very disappointed by this comment and It also seems unnecessarily dismissive. If anything, it tears open a window into what must be seen to be a deeply insecure and rigidly simple mind.

get out of Veeky Forums if you don't read books

its from a story of his you mongoloids

it's 2017 and I dont read intolerant bigots

Only kikes would actually sit down and read some fictional bullshit that a loser scribbled down untold decades ago. I bet you have like zero twitter followers, get on the redpill fag.

why even bother writing this

To make all the bookfags hang themselves. All books either disagree with the red-pill and may be burnt as heresy, or reinforce it and may thus be burnt as superfluous.

>needing reasons to do something
Spooky

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.” - Bertolt Brecht

Not an adequate source to refute America's foremost prose stylist.

He does it in many many threads. He used to post pepe pictures alongside it but he started getting banned for spamming.

All this proves is that Brecht was badly educated.

>only one person can see through the semitic lies structuring our society
Get bombed, pseudo-Israelite.