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Is there a correlation between atheism and intelligence?

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Is there a correlation between atheism and intelligence?
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RE: Is there a correlation between atheism and intelligence?
July 4, 2014 at 4:34 am (This post was last modified: July 4, 2014 at 4:35 am by Bucky Ball.)
I actually know some extremely intelligent people who are religious. It may have more to do with (an amazing) capacity for compartmentalizing cognitive dissonances. (At least in the examples I am acquainted with). They are well aware of the objections, and how valid they are. They are able to dismiss them somehow.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

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RE: Is there a correlation between atheism and intelligence? - by Bucky Ball - July 4, 2014 at 4:34 am

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