Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people

[Cliffy]

Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?

For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.
It's unclear why this trend persists, but researchers of a new study have an idea: Religion is an instinct, they say, and people who can rise above instincts are more intelligent than those who rely on them.
"Intelligence — in rationally solving problems — can be understood as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open to non-instinctive possibilities," study lead author Edward Dutton, a research fellow at the Ulster Institute for Social Research in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.

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[Walter]

Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?

For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.
It's unclear why this trend persists, but researchers of a new study have an idea: Religion is an instinct, they say, and people who can rise above instincts are more intelligent than those who rely on them.
"Intelligence — in rationally solving problems — can be understood as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open to non-instinctive possibilities," study lead author Edward Dutton, a research fellow at the Ulster Institute for Social Research in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.

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Stoopid article with no basis in reality.

CS Lewis would agree with me, as well as a myriad of other scholars with IQ's well over 120.

 

[petros]

Cliff hates his miserable existence and needs someone to blame for being a f-cking loser.

 

[captain morgan]

Don't know about smarter, but a helluva lot more arrogant for sure

 

[Danbones]

Believing and knowing are two different things

Those that know that are smarter then those who do not believe that that is true

 

[Angstrom]

Smarter as in. A little smarter then really really really really really really really dumb. As in, Not anything anyone intelligent would be bragging about.

 

[MHz]

Most religious people know squat about what is in the Bible so that only means they place too much faith in the Clergy. Jews are just as clueless if you compare their talk to the actual Scriptures.

How about smart in being able to look at issues with reason being the part that verifies or discredits whatever the issue is? That fully lacks in the religious segment and that is agenda driven rather than lack of intelligent people.

Cliff hates his miserable existence and needs someone to blame for being a f-cking loser.

You spelled 'petros' wrong, Loser with a capital 'L'.

Walnut, do you have one point the Jews make about the Bible that actually fits what the whole book promotes. When you operate with only the OT as your guide you already proved you are not the smartest of groups.
Speak up mouse.

 

[Murphy]

Put your hands together and feel the love! Great rhythm!

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[MHz]

Stoopid article with no basis in reality.

CS Lewis would agree with me, as well as a myriad of other scholars with IQ's well over 120.

I'd rather that come from people with no agenda and be experts at spotting bullshit.

 

[Durry]

 

[Cliffy]

The Christians Making Atheists



With every persecution of the LGBTQ community, with every unprovoked attack on Muslims, with every planet-wrecking decision, with every regressive civil rights move—the flight from Christianity continues. Meanwhile the celebrity preachers and professional Christians publicly beat their breasts about the multitudes walking away from God, oblivious to the fact that they are the impetus for the exodus.
And one day soon, these same religious folks will look around, lamenting the empty buildings and the irrelevance of the Church and a world that has no use for it, and they’ll wonder how this happened. They’ll blame a corrupt culture, or the liberal media, or a rejection of Biblical values, or the devil himself—but it will be none of those things.
No, the reason the Church soon will be teetering on the verge of extinction and irrelevance, will be because those entrusted to perpetuate the love of Jesus in the world, lost the plot so horribly, and gave the world no other option but to look elsewhere for goodness and purpose and truth.
Soon these Christians will ask why humanity has rejected Jesus and we will remind them of these days, and assure them that they have not rejected Jesus at all—they just found no evidence of him in the Church.


The Christians Making Atheists

 

[Ludlow]

Stoopid article with no basis in reality.

CS Lewis would agree with me, as well as a myriad of other scholars with IQ's well over 120.

Any relation to Al Lewis the guy who played grandpa Munster and looks like Ted Cruz ? .

There are non believers who are highly intelligent, and some that are dummies. And, There are believers who are highly intelligent, and some that are dummies. The statement however, most assuredly came not from an intelligent person, but a dummy.

 

[JLM]

Any relation to Al Lewis the guy who played grandpa Munster and looks like Ted Cruz ? .

There are non believers who are highly intelligent, and some that are dummies. And, There are believers who are highly intelligent, and some that are dummies. The statement however, most assuredly came not from an intelligent person, but a dummy.

The most intelligent ones are those who are honest and say they don't know!

 

[TenPenny]

The most intelligent ones are those who are honest and say they don't know!

So, you mean, non-believers.

 

[petros]

The Christians Making Atheists



With every persecution of the LGBTQ community, with every unprovoked attack on Muslims, with every planet-wrecking decision, with every regressive civil rights move—the flight from Christianity continues. Meanwhile the celebrity preachers and professional Christians publicly beat their breasts about the multitudes walking away from God, oblivious to the fact that they are the impetus for the exodus.
And one day soon, these same religious folks will look around, lamenting the empty buildings and the irrelevance of the Church and a world that has no use for it, and they’ll wonder how this happened. They’ll blame a corrupt culture, or the liberal media, or a rejection of Biblical values, or the devil himself—but it will be none of those things.
No, the reason the Church soon will be teetering on the verge of extinction and irrelevance, will be because those entrusted to perpetuate the love of Jesus in the world, lost the plot so horribly, and gave the world no other option but to look elsewhere for goodness and purpose and truth.
Soon these Christians will ask why humanity has rejected Jesus and we will remind them of these days, and assure them that they have not rejected Jesus at all—they just found no evidence of him in the Church.


The Christians Making Atheists

 

[JLM]

So, you mean, non-believers.

Or I guess you could say non disbelievers or maybe agnostics!


(There is no one who does know)

 

[MHz]

So, you mean, non-believers.

I can be quite honest and write at length why the Bible is as valid as it claims to be right down to more than 2/3 of the ones who have heard about God will be found out to be non-believers. By the time they have gone down that path they will have come to be believers. There is no mandate that everyone be a believer, the only reason the book was written at all is so the chaos doesn't seem to come out of nowhere.

Isa:42:9:
Behold,
the former things are come to pass,
and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.

 

[TenPenny]

I can be quite honest and write at length why the Bible is as valid as it claims to be right down to more than 2/3 of the ones who have heard about God will be found out to be non-believers. By the time they have gone down that path they will have come to be believers. There is no mandate that everyone be a believer, the only reason the book was written at all is so the chaos doesn't seem to come out of nowhere.

Isa:42:9:
Behold,
the former things are come to pass,
and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.

So, by JLM's reasoning, you're not that bright.

 

[JLM]

So, by JLM's reasoning, you're not that bright.

Don't put words in my mouth that were never there!

 

[Jinentonix]

So, you mean, non-believers.

No, the I don't know crowd would be more agnostic than atheistic.

Religious people: God is real!

Atheists: There is no god!

Agnostics: There is no proof of either his existence or lack of it.

If you ask me, it's the agnostics who are likely the more intelligent as a group.