Is there a correlation between atheism and intelligence?

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A lot of studies suggest a correlation between higher education/IQ and atheism, or, at least, people tend to be less religious or non religious. What are your thoughts on this?

I don't think it necessarily is just because a person doesn't believe in a god, but the way those people approach lines of thinking, approach claims, etc. Rather, I think the reason is that people who lack belief in a god or gods, or fairy tales or magical creatures, these sorts of things, tend to be less likely to fall prey to the line of wishful thinking. Those same people are probably more likely to read into things and do research than most people, and more likely to learn something.

People who are willing to accept reality for what it is, accept new ways of thinking, willing to question things and not take everything that is said to them as factual are less likely to put up with that stuff and be more willing to actually learn stuff. So I think overall, I can see how that correlation could coincide with intelligence.

I think more importantly is it is likely those people may embrace skepticism and willing to dig for information and do the research and learn something from the process.

But people who will take the shit on a spoon that is fed to them and are told it's cumin flavored pudding are going to go through their life thinking they've been eating cumin flavored pudding their whole life until they put the spoon down and decide to go down to the corner market and find out that's not the only thing to eat. That's pretty much how I see the spoon fed BS called religion anyway. "Yes my son, it's totally cumin flavored pudding and not shit I pulled out of my ass. It is the only food you need, and the only thing to taste. Everything else will poison you."