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Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
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Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
Hey, don't take it from me. This is the conclusion from a study by Professor Miron Zuckerman as reported in the Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...58046.html

So here's my advice to xtians who are so quick to abuse and accuse atheists of being "morons" or "stupid". It is more likely that you are so please stop the personal abuse.
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#2
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
This may be because non-theists tend to read more than one book.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#3
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
In fairness though, it's not like the bible or the qu'ran makes one less intelligent.
It's just that those in despair are in most need of hope to escape the circumstances they are born into.
This is where religion thrives... And most of the people in despair are the uneducated...




But then you have YEC who really are just stupid.





and scientologists

and mormons

and open 7 days dentists

the list goes on
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#4
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
To a man though, they are smarter than their God.

The conclusion though, never seems to occur. Not even to the apologists . . .
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#5
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
Of course a small average difference isn't very significant, and says hardly anything about whether a particular atheist is smarter than a particular theist. It's interesting though to drill down and look a the specific area of intelligence where almost all that average difference resides: analytical aptitude.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#6
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
Moron..


Intelligence is a measure of indoctrination. It is a number or rating that reflects How much of society approved BS have you retained.

While religious people may retain a low rating of pop society indoctrination (not a bad thing) Religious people tend to have the market cornered in wisdom and uncommon sense.
(other wise why brag about being a puppet of modern society by sporting it's indoctrination score over that of another?)
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#7
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
You seem especially ignorant this morning, Drich.

in·tel·li·gence
/inˈteləjəns/
noun
noun: intelligence

1. the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#8
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
How many IQ points does it take to assert a Holy book is God inspired/God written and is Inerrant and every Word literally True and that same book is so poorly written as to record the denouement as occurring twice on consecutive days ??


And that same book also inspires/invokes 70,000 schisms to boot !!
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#9
RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
(December 12, 2017 at 10:26 am)Drich Wrote: Intelligence is a measure of indoctrination.

No. Just no. You're thinking of education. Allow me to educate you.

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Of course, some of them are born stupid as well.

You can be educated badly, and taught the wrong things, but that has nothing to do with how intelligent or smart you are.

People aren't stupid because they believe stupid things. People believe stupid things because they are stupid.
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RE: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists
(December 12, 2017 at 4:15 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: Hey, don't take it from me. This is the conclusion from a study by Professor Miron Zuckerman as reported in the Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...58046.html

So here's my advice to xtians who are so quick to abuse and accuse atheists of being "morons" or "stupid". It is more likely that you are so please stop the personal abuse.


Let me see.  Shall I take it from the bible, from you or from this Professor Miron Zuckerman guy?  I see Miron has "professor" right there in front of his name.  So I guess if I were in the habit of getting my conclusions from authorities, that might make a fine choice.  But I'm a big DIY guy when it comes to deciding claims which on the face of it are suspect, as is the one in this thread's title.  Not that I've done any research into this question personally.  But from my personal experience with the people I meet online and in RL I don't find intelligence dividing so neatly between believers and non-believers.  I'm not tempted to read the article itself but if you'd care to extract what you think is a persuasive quote I'd be happy to give it a look.
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