"Religious people tend to be smarter"

[Chad32]

You can be a smart religious person. Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon, and quite the religious homophobe. The problem is that holy books have, at best, only kernels of truth in them. If there's any "out of the box" thinking to be had, it's the kind that does whatever is possible to find evidence for already held conclusion, despite what evidence says.

There are smart theists. There are dumb atheists. There are open minded theists, and close minded atheists. I'd say it all comes down to religion not always playing a strong part in every person's life. People use religion to justify their actions, instead of using it as a guideline, though in their defense the bible is pretty much impossible to follow if you take it all seriously. Judge not, lest ye be judged, but stone the gays to death.