(April 5, 2015 at 11:20 pm)Polaris Wrote:(April 5, 2015 at 11:04 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The sterotypical atheist is a high school drop out? A sarcastic, irreverant teen I might buy. But a drop-out? Do Christians really think the average atheist is a high school drop out. I thought we were supposed to be elitists. The outspoken atheists I knew in school were invariably smart as well as obnoxious.
But thank you for the word "mistaken."
Our views of stereotypical atheists are people who lack intelligence...mind you, this is the stereotypical atheist who proclaims they are an atheist and doesn't apply to the atheists who keep their mouth shut in public about their atheism. The assumption among Christians is that people only make anti-religious claims so that they appear smarter since there are a lot of studies that show the average nonbeliever is more educated (they also don't seem to care about their lack of belief...they're just atheist because they're atheist) than the average theist....kind of like jumping on the bandwagon to overcompensate for feeling inadequate especially when they compare themselves next to people from that WBC.
One can be elitist and uneducated. Even though Brian Griffin is just a cartoon character, he would be a good example of that stereotype. Portrays himself as intelligent, but doesn't really have a solid foundation to stand upon when it comes to academic conversation.
Mind you, these are just stereotypes and I have never once met a nonbeliever (I have family members who I can tell are atheists) who exemplified those traits. Then again, only met one theist who talked about the Earth not being older than 6,000 years.
So real atheists are so far above theists in education and intelligence that with all the dim witted high school dropout bandwagon jumpers diluting the pool the overall intelligence and education of the adulterated group still rates above theists?
I knew theists are dumb as shit but not quite that low grade of shit.
