"Religious people tend to be smarter"

[Salacious B. Crumb]

Some one could be theist and a sceptic or freethinker without applying it to their
religion. Or equally could apply it but be fooled by the confirmation bias that they
would almost inevitably have to reference. However no one is completely sceptical
or freethinking all of the time about absolutely everything because we are as much
emotional beings as logical ones. And just because one is an atheist does not mean
you cannot still retain religious thinking in a non religious capacity. So this applies to
us too albeit maybe not so much. But whoever you are or whatever you believe or do
not believe in you are still the easiest person in the world to fool. And so one needs to
constantly be checking for conscious or sub conscious biases. Now you will never get it
perfect but over time and with practice you can make it as imperfect as is possible to be

I do agree with this, for the most part. And, I’m sure no atheist is perfectly open-minded and fully freethinking, because of events that have occurred in our lives, confirmation bias, because of our cognitive capacities, etc. I completely agree that all of us should do our best to be incessantly checking our biases, and I know we’ll never be perfect at it. In my opinion, in general, theists are more likely to be fooled and/or be sucked into certain beliefs such as bigfoot, alien abductions, psychics, faith healers, loch ness monster, witchcraft because of seeing it on T.V. or reading about it. I feel that they’re more likely to be swindled by someone in a scam. Their brains are less skeptical than those of non-believers in general, because we have awakened that in our brains. I feel there are more bullshit filters in our brains, with us than theists. We see how practicing skepticism actually allows us to figure out what’s true. A theist’s brain operates on faith and gullibility (not entirely), so, when extraordinary claims are presented before them, they are more likely to have faith that the claims are true.