Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study

[Huggy Bear]

Lol, didn't take you long at all to start back peddling. Forget Denmark, I can provide other examples, would you like me to post them?

[Edwardo Piet]

I was joking. I was using Denmark as an example of a time you thought you were right about something and you like to bring it back up even when it has no relevance.

Hilariously you're doing it now. Even if you were right about stuff it's completely irrelevant. And you're not, you're illogical.

I was always joking about Denmark. I never thought you were right about it. This is hilarious.

I'm not backpedalling by having thought the entire time that you're wrong about this and that Denmark is a joke and you're illogical.

[Huggy Bear]

You say all that and avoided the question altogether.
It's very simple, a yes or no will suffice.

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, but what's the conclusion here? Are stupid people more likely to be religious or are religious people more likely to be stupid? There are definitely some exceptions to this, as well.

That's the one question the study raises that it doesn't seem equipped to answer. Do people get drawn to religion because they can't understand the world? Does their religion inhibit them from understanding or even trying? For that matter, is there even a causation in addition to correlation?

I could claim that, since July has the highest birth rates of any month, October is nine months before July, and pumpkins really start becoming ubiquitous in October, Pumpkins could be related to increased levels of conception. This is, of course, bollocks.

A definite conclusion on the correlation is not likely is all I'm saying.

[Fake Messiah]

Most of the times religion does seem to be the cause of stupidity, of stopping the cognitive functions to develop and to be rational. Especially when it is generational thing.

Aron Ra gives a very good overview of it. If you don't have time to watch it whole you can just look at first 10 minutes to get the picture.

[ProgrammingGodJordan]

It is a FACT that the RELIGIOUS are inferior in intellect: http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early/201...6.abstract

[Minimalist]

It is a FACT that the RELIGIOUS are inferior in intellect

To believe that bullshit they would have to be.

[Fake Messiah]

So there you go another news which claims "American students have strides to make when it comes to math and science, where they lag behind a solid block of East Asian countries as well as Russia and Kazakhstan."
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-stu...ce-2016-11

Yeah, even Kazakhstan - you know a country that's apparently such a joke of backwardness that even Borat is from there. Well that's what you get when during science class students watch films by Kirk Cameron. The worst thing is that many Christians see this as a good thing, because those heathens are good at their heathen sciences.

[Fake Messiah]

Even the kids themselves are pleading not to ruin their education and therefore their job perspectives.