Well I'm hanging on to the point about belief stunting the intellect. No matter how Spock-like you are in other areas of thinking, if you believe in God you have forced a small piece of your mind to suspend all belief in the laws of nature and forced it to "explain" complicated things (the universe, all life on Earth, etc.) by interpolating something infinitely more complicated, that defies all known laws, that has no beginning or end and for which we have no evidence (God). What a cop-out. You lie down in the face of tradition, uncorroborated ancient texts, witness and edicts from holy men. You suspend all critical analysis in that area of thought. If that isn't intellectual stunting, well I don't know what is.