Religious folks..LESS intelligent than Atheists !............(Study)

NewHampshire Black Bears said:
Well my answer goes back to something 'Tree said a long time ago.

He said; " I'll NEVER understand why some folks will vote against thier own self interest"

Poor southern Whites, always voting RED, working at Walmart , NO health insurance and NEVER making $ 30,000 a year, just does NOT make sense to me.

Does that makes sense to you, my long time OLD ...(and getting OLDER)....friend ?
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Of course we don't want to take into account the cost of living , in the south, is cheaper than the north, do we ?
 
There are brilliant religious people. There are really dumb atheists. “Smarter” is a vague term. And IQ is only one of many ways to measure it.
 
NewHampshire Black Bears said:
Brother dell,
There ARE lazy pricks that will Never work (NO argument from Me..there)..But the GOP is hardly interested in helping a guy transition from lower class..to middle class...by way of getting a good job....with all thier Horse-SH!T support for stuff like 'Right to Work states,.........helll, you know all the crap they pull/support to keep the middle class from growing. YOU don't need ME to outline all of the ways, and the things they do, cause you already KNOW them.

(OLD)..dude,
Don't try to SH!T a SH!TTER !!!!!!!!!!
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Last I saw, nobody makes money when the dems in command.

How's things doing now after six years......?

Aw Shiit....it must still be Bushes fault.
 
Seriously

Why believe in something that does not make any sense?

A white haired old guy on a cloud keeping track of who has been good and who has been bad? That's Santa Claus.

The Bible/Quran is the Word Of God? That is demonstrably not true, and it doesn't make sense.

God gave us the Bible/Quran/etal so that we could know him? Doesn't make sense... God could have given us a book written so that at least his followers could agree on what it means, and probably in 500 words or less.

We are supposed to believe that the all loving father and creator who wants us to know him and be close to him gave 70% of his "children" the wrong damn book?

That does not make any damn sense at all.

Then the questions are dismissed with "that is a mystery", or " that is not for us to know, yet...", or , "if it could be proved, it wouldn't be faith..." Implying deficiency and lacking in the questioner.

Is God threatened by his children asking questions?

That doesn't make any sense either.

On and on and on. Those are christian cultural examples, but the three revealed religions share much in not making sense.

The thing that All religions share that is that they all begin as mankind's attempt to explain the unexplainable at that time and place in history knowledge-wise, and that they are all eventually corrupted by some of their followers and become tools of control and personal enrichment.

IOW, mankind created god, or gods. Apparently they needed him/them.

Then, man, and it is almost always men, use that need for power and control and their own enrichment.

God may be "real", to the extent that ideas are real, but religion is a farce, and on balance, historically, a harmful one.

Is that what God wanted?

That wouldn't make any sense either.

So, why believe in things that do not make any sense?
 
Ifly2 said:
Seriously

Why believe in something that does not make any sense?

A white haired old guy on a cloud keeping track of who has been good and who has been bad? That's Santa Claus.

The Bible/Quran is the Word Of God? That is demonstrably not true, and it doesn't make sense.

God gave us the Bible/Quran/etal so that we could know him? Doesn't make sense... God could have given us a book written so that at least his followers could agree on what it means, and probably in 500 words or less.

We are supposed to believe that the all loving father and creator who wants us to know him and be close to him gave 70% of his "children" the wrong damn book?

That does not make any damn sense at all.

Then the questions are dismissed with "that is a mystery", or " that is not for us to know, yet...", or , "if it could be proved, it wouldn't be faith..." Implying deficiency and lacking in the questioner.

Is God threatened by his children asking questions?

That doesn't make any sense either.

On and on and on. Those are christian cultural examples, but the three revealed religions share much in not making sense.

The thing that All religions share that is that they all begin as mankind's attempt to explain the unexplainable at that time and place in history knowledge-wise, and that they are all eventually corrupted by some of their followers and become tools of control and personal enrichment.

IOW, mankind created god, or gods. Apparently they needed him/them.

Then, man, and it is almost always men, use that need for power and control and their own enrichment.

God may be "real", to the extent that ideas are real, but religion is a farce, and on balance, historically, a harmful one.

Is that what God wanted?

That wouldn't make any sense either.

So, why believe in things that do not make any sense?
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Like you for example?
 
Good, intelligent, rational and well thought out and reasoned reply there Dude
 
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Ifly2 said:
Good, intelligent, rational and well thought out and reasoned reply there Dude
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Ifly2,
Your earlier post was one of the Best, Rational 'things..I've Ever read, on the subject at hand.

And I believe that the article/study pointed out, that all the religions..N E E D...folks who are very easily LED, and that includes the ones with PhD's.

Now as for our good buddy dell,.......well I for one believe he makes a Lot of sense....a Lot of the time. As for the rest of those 'times, ...well,.....just apply the age old proven theory that....You can't teach ol' Dogs...New Tricks !
 
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