(February 15, 2012 at 10:25 am)Chuff Wrote:(February 15, 2012 at 10:05 am)Tempus Wrote: While atheists seem to tend toward being smarter, more rational people, there's nothing that guarantees that each individual will be.
The rejection of the man-made concept of god is not a sufficient condition for intellectual or moral emancipation. Atheists have no right to go around looking superior. They have only fulfilled the necessary condition by throwing off the infancy of the species and disclaiming a special place in the natural scheme.
--Christopher Hitchens (Introduction to The Portable Atheist)
Sounds like a good premise for a scientific study. Defining the parameters would be highly subjective. On second thought your opinion does not appear to be falsifiable.
