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"The article points to a meta-analysis of 63 studies that supposedly found religious people tend to be less intelligent than nonreligious people.

According to this study, “the association was stronger among college students and the general public than for those younger than college age”.

This association likely has a lot to do with education indoctrination.

More intelligent people are more likely to go to college and, as a result, they are frequently exposed to anti-Christian, or at least anti-theism ideas as well as pro-Darwinism beliefs.

The reason has been documented by Stanford Educated Attorney Greg Lukianoff, who is President of an organization fighting censorship in colleges called FIRE.

In short, he found that campus intolerance of free speech and censorship is primarily directed at Christians."

1 posted on 07/25/2017 11:15:43 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: fishtank

I was atheist for about six months.
But I was 16 and I got better.


73 posted on 07/25/2017 12:45:27 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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Atheism is a religion of non-religion. They have their prophets, their dogma and their standards that they use to judge nonbelievers.


74 posted on 07/25/2017 12:46:21 PM PDT by pfflier
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I like the way South Park’s Trey Parker put it....
“Out of all the ridiculous religion stories — which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous — the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah, there’s this big, giant universe and it’s expanding and it’s all going to collapse on itself and we’re all just here, just ‘cuz. Just ‘cuz. That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.”


75 posted on 07/25/2017 12:49:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Actually, one of the things I have noticed is a large number of younger people adopting atheism simply because it is trendy in their general contact group. A lot of them

A bad reason, the lack of thought is a bit of a put off.

I also suspect that if people claim that they are atheist others will assume that they have a high IQ.


76 posted on 07/25/2017 1:01:42 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?

Well...in their own minds yes, but we know what the Lord says about that. Romans 1:22 'Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools'.

78 posted on 07/25/2017 1:04:38 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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Of *course* they're smarter! Just ask ‘em...they'
79 posted on 07/25/2017 1:10:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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Atheists are religious people.

That's what scientists say. If you don't practice a typical religion you will substitute something and follow it religiously.

You can't help that because humans are hardwired to have religious beliefs. It's in our DNA. You can call it whatever you like, but it's religious in nature.

83 posted on 07/25/2017 1:16:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.t)
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Pascal’s wager. Atheism is a terrible bet. It gives you no chance of winning the prize.


88 posted on 07/25/2017 1:39:49 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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Here we go with this IQ shyt again. IQ is only one facet of intelligence. Plenty of high IQ people believe the most ridiculous things. Take Isaac Asimov. Considered a person of extremely high IQ he nonetheless could never see that socialism is an inevitable failure. I’ll never forget his stupid unhinged rants about Reaganomics.

High IQ people are often the most foolish people in the room.


89 posted on 07/25/2017 1:44:58 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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No way are atheists more intelligent than believers. Let’s start with St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas; both brilliant.

Venerable Bede
Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon
Theodoric of Freiburg
Thomas Bradwardine
Jean Buriden
Nicole Oresme
Nicholas of Cusa
Ignazio Danti
Renee Descartes
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Athanasius Kirchner

All Catholic Christian scientists and this is just a start.


90 posted on 07/25/2017 1:51:07 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people

What is the correlation between high IQ and the concern about the problem of evil? What is the relation between high IQ and the desire for a permissive relativistic morality?

92 posted on 07/25/2017 1:53:33 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I guess they’re referring to idiots like G.K. Chesterton, Max Planck, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. You know, only utter dolts like them would believe in a Higher Power.


97 posted on 07/25/2017 2:04:15 PM PDT by katana
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Don’t know about all, but the ones I have met or had a conversation with sure think they are...


99 posted on 07/25/2017 2:35:56 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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I would put any atheist up against any Christian with even basic training in apolgetics (defense of the Christian faith). The latter would quickly annihilate every typical atheist argument.


102 posted on 07/25/2017 3:10:38 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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The question should be, Why do atheists think they are smarter than everyone else?


124 posted on 07/25/2017 9:15:55 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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This topic calls to mind an anecdote I once heard about a conversation between the renowned atheist Carl Sagan and a God fearing colleague of his. Sagan asked his peer, “Since you are so smart, why do you believe in God?” His esteemed colleague replied, “Since you are so smart, then why is it you don’t?”


125 posted on 07/25/2017 9:20:58 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Therefore, I really never have any regard for any insight an atheist offers.


134 posted on 07/26/2017 4:57:30 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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Atheists are often people who were abandoned by their fathers as children.


141 posted on 07/26/2017 8:25:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Arrogant old black women, elite SCATTERBRAINED white women & common thugs- Today's DEMOCRAT PARTY.)
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It is hard to pay attention to anything in this article when it oozes idiocy about so many specific kinds of “IQ”.

IQ is well established and understood as a “g” general intelligence element that pertains, to different degrees, across domains.

There is clearly a correlation between IQ and religious liberalism, however. With Unitarians, for example, outpacing even Jews or, in the US, Hindus for educational attainment, while the more fundamentalist Jehovah’s Witnesses and Pentacostalists tend to be at the other end of the spectrum. Atheists are in the middle, though slightly above the overall average.


144 posted on 07/26/2017 10:53:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Bump for later.


146 posted on 07/26/2017 11:38:24 AM PDT by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
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