Brain sides and spirituality? (beliefs, God)

[Master Vigil]

This may be completely wrong, but it seems like if you have 2 people. One is an artist, sees everything as art and abstract and such, and the other who is very mathematical and logical. Would the artist be more spiritual than the mathematical? Like, it seems that if an artist saw a sunset, he would think it was more magical than scientific? (This is just a one person observation and in no way is completely accurate). Could it be that an artist would read more into things with his imagination than a mathematician would? And if so, which is more valid?

[No*s]

I doubt it. I've been told by more than one person that I emphasize reason too much (I wouldn't be told that by a skeptic, obviously, but would be told the exact oppisite lol). I've known many people with an active spiritual life who made it a point to try and be rather logical. That would seem to disprove it to me, but the psychologists would answer better than I.

[Mr Spinkles]

Actually Master Vigil I think sometimes being logical--seeing things in black and white, A or B, this causes exactly that--can cause superstition. Sometimes our tendency to see patterns that aren't really there leads to more irrational belief than a person who can think in the abstract and imagine a number of possibilities.

After all....that guy has lepracy, right? God must be punishing him, right? He must be a bad person, right?

The logic behind irrational beliefs can be quite disconcerting. This is why it is said that irrational beliefs have more to do with education than intelligence.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Mr_Spinkles

The logic behind irrational beliefs can be quite disconcerting. This is why it is said that irrational beliefs have more to do with education than intelligence.

I can buy that. I've seen time and again intelligent people who have startlingly irrational beliefs.

[Master Vigil]

Thanks for the responses guys. For some reason it just seemed like a more rational person would not look at a sunset and see it as magical. But I am glad I am wrong.