Low IQ= more religious
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Living in an extremely religious country I'm afraid I have to agree with you. \nThe most educated and knowledgeable people I know are atheists, agnostics, secular humanists.\nI don't think it's a coincidence.
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Absolutely.\n\nReligion (EVERY religion) is designed to make the stupid stay stupid, the poor staying poor, the suppressed staying suppressed.\n\nReligion is about telling you what you should think to keep you from thinking for yourself.
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The fact that 100% of dolphins are atheists, as opposed to only 10-15% of humans, leads me to think that they may be more intelligent that us!
140104
It usually is due to religious beliefs or arbitrary prejudices.
288384
i have a son who is dyslexic and it made me realize that everything that we do on a daily basis involves language. unfortunately he feels that he is stupid because he has difficulty reading and writing but he is a mechanical genius.  what god takes away in one area he makes up for in another .  people who are rude about this have no compassion and if u ask me they are ignorant in their own way.
500443
Atheists are better than people who feel a need to give meaning to their lives through delusional superstitious god concepts. Atheists use their intellect, that is what makes them superior to mindless religious automatons.
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the following Wikipedia article links some studies.  Personally, I think that such a relation likely exists, but not due so much to greater intelligence of those without religion, but because a) academic institutions can be hostile toawrd people of faith, 2) non-religious people are more likely to seek divine purpose and meaning in academic pursuits, while religious people seek meaning from religious pursuits, and 3) intelligent/educated people are going to place more faith on the powers of human intellect than those who do not have such values.
74993
I'm assuming the quote is meant to be a joke, but actually, it would be very surprising to find out that 50% of children are of below average intelligence. This would imply that the arithmetic mean of children's intelligence was identically equal to the median, an unusual observation.
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You're right.  \n\nAs man becomes more intelligent, the nonsense of religion just becomes more and more ludicrous.\n\nIt's dying fast.\n\nChurches are almost empty now.  Even those people who pretend to be religious would rather be in the DIY superstore on a Sunday instead of church.\n\nWere it not for the vast wealth of the churches, which they acquired through stealing all those years ago, Christianity plc would now be bankrupt.
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Because Religion turns people into mindless idiots.
595357
Ha! Logic, reasoning, science and critical thinking skills are tools of the devil to lure the weak-minded! Blind faith is the only intelligent solution! Besides, I know what God is like because he is described in a book written thousands of years ago, and he has spoken to me, and has ordered me to molest children and do a strip tease before his majesty.
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lack of intelligence...
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Scared and gullible? No, they really are more stupid than the average person. There have been many studies aimed at establishing a link between 'religiosity' and intelligence and almost all of them find that the smarter a person is the less religious he is. The results are summarised in this article with links to the data used.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence\n\nAs further evidence, note especially the christian response in the article, which can be summarised "Yes we are idiots, but that is part of gods plan."
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I think the reason is that people are trying to show how smart they are about religion and they are also trying to convert other people any way they can.
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Well, not really. I guess that's why knowledge is so important. So that you can figure it out which one is diamond and which one is fake. So honestly, if you believe in something, it's because of your knowledge that make you feel that way.\n\nProof? Compare the intellect of any real successful and religious(not because his mom says so) people with morons. Much different.\n\nI take it you refer to religion choice. Just investigate whatever you feel suspicious about and increase your knowledge along the way. Sooner or later, you'll find the real answer to your problem.
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I would say about 90% brainwashed and about 10% enlightened. They aren't all stupid. When you are raised in the faith, it can be a long and hard process to recover.
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I agree with you. Some people have weak minds, and need religion to support them. For some of these people, it's a benefit, for others, a mental parasite. Some people have strong minds yet still hold religious notins dearly. That's the way things are.\n\nI have neither. I am an atheist and a satanist, so I am just giving my outsider's observations.