Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study

[Doubting Thomas]

I know I was able to make much more sense of the world once I had thrown off the blinders of religion.

poor common knowledge about physical and biological phenomena,

You mean like conservative Christian politicians who claim that a woman can't get pregnant by being raped?

, and in particular, with assigning mentality to non-mental phenomena.

If I hear someone say "everything happens for a reason" one more time, I'm going to come unglued.  And no, they don't mean that every event has a cause, they mean there's some intelligent reason that the almighty controller of the universe made this or that event happen.