Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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1. I do believe that education has a bearing on it

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 04:25 PM

Jan 2014

but I am not sure if IQ does. With higher education, we are taught to think differently and to work with more abstract concepts. This can cause us to look more closely at everything, including religion. The closer we look at religion, the more we see the holes in it. It is probably true of people with higher IQ's as well, since they usually are better at critical thinking.

I have seen these study before, as I can get rather smug about it, but I am not sure if I believe that all people who are believers are not as smart or educated as I am.

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Salon: This is your brain on religion :(atheism correlates to education and high I.Q.) [View all] lindysalsagal Jan 2014 OP

I do believe that education has a bearing on it Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #1

All you really need is the hunch that your religion is determined by your location and family lindysalsagal Jan 2014 #2

And not one single religion has ever been independently "discovered." trotsky Jan 2014 #3

That is probably where I started to have doubts. Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #4

Many religious people point to the global widespread belief in god/s as Arugula Latte Jan 2014 #5

However, using the argument of widespread belief is just an appeal to populairty imo sakabatou Jan 2014 #6

Agreed. Optimistic folks aren't looking for the big daddy in the sky. But when life is hard lindysalsagal Jan 2014 #7