(April 3, 2012 at 3:34 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I like to say they are just stupid, but I am well aware that we are products of our raising. Enough indoctrination from my parents and I have might professed belief in a 6,000 year old earth also.
Mister Agenda is right that we take too much credit for certain things that are highly influenced by our environment.
I would also say that atheism attracts a more rational kind of person, although I wouldn't go around saying that theists are stupid, as it would just make us live up to the reputation we have among the theist community.