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| Intelligence Isn't Subject To One's Religious Or Spiritual Views. |
| Have you ever heard someone ignorant enough to say people who are religious are generally less intelligent than those who are not. I completely disagree to that. To find a sense of meaning requires a sense of intelligence. It requires a sense of thought, wonder, fear, hope, faith, admiration, or conclusively emotion. To be emotional is to be human. If religion is unintelligent, then emotions are, and thus humans are. I think to be religious is to be human, emotional, and intelligent. |
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No, but one's religious views are subject to their intelligence. |
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I will start by saying that to be religious does not mean lack of intellegence. That would be a
daft thing to say. Cephus never said that by the way. So maybe I should be on the other side of
this argument because the title stipulated that it isn't SUBJECT to ones religious views. But here
I am on the against side. I have met many people who are religious and smart, many who aren't. I
have never met an athiest who is dumb, not one. So on average, if it is possible to define
intelligence, I have to be on this side of the debate.
Based purely on observation generally, and from reading many comments on this site as an example of
that, the average mentality of the theist is lower than that of the Athiest/agnostic. Look at some
of the "does god exist?" debates and tell me that is not so. The more fundamental the views the
less educated the person, not always but generally.
You say that to believe in a god requires thought and wonder. Maybe in some cases but so often it
is quite the reverse. God is a very easy answer to big big questions. To follow the thought that
god doesn't exist opens so much more for the mind to ponder. Why are we here? "God did it, it's in
the bible". That is the easy answer that requires so little thought. To question religion and all
that comes with it and search for the real truth for why and how we are here takes an intellegent
mind. The answers are far more incredible and mind blowingly wonderful as well.
I don't have stats to back this up, mostly through sheer laziness, but I have read that of the
registered scientists a very very tiny percentage consider themselves to be religious/spiritual.
That says something to me. |
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You can disagree all you like but the research backs it up. There are more than a dozen studies
that have been done over the past 100 years that conclusively show a negative correlation between
intelligence/education and religiousity. While that doesn't say that every theist is stupid by any
means, it shows that in very general terms, the higher your IQ and the more educated you are, the
less likely you are to be a theist and those that are theistic tend to be much more liberal
theists.
Fundamentalism doesn't survive education in most cases. |
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