Religious people are less intelligent than atheists

[guno]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

 

[guno]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

"The psychologists who carried out the review also sought to pre-empt the secularist interpretation of the findings by suggesting that more intelligent people are less likely to have religious beliefs as they associate themselves with ideas around personal control."

"Intelligent people typically spend more time in school - a form of self-regulation that may yield long-term benefits," the researchers wrote.

 

[Jackson]

Einstein believed in a Supreme being.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Einstein believed in a Supreme being.

that does not mean he was religious though......

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Einstein believed in a Supreme being.

No, he didn't actually. Though later in his life he was more ambiguous on the subject.

 

[turzovka]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

Well then you have turned intelligence into a vice as much as a virtue. ---- or into pride.

And what of those super intelligent beings convinced of God? (Isaac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, et al.)? Anomalies?

 

[UllysesS.Archer]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

I guess it's good they didn't test you guno, you would have brought the curve way down.

 

[guno]

Einstein believed in a Supreme being.

My Grandparents knew Einstein , He was like me, a secular Jew

This sums his religiously and belief in a god

Einstein expressed his skepticism regarding an anthropomorphic deity, often describing it as "naïve" and "childlike". He stated, "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

On 22 March 1954 Einstein received a letter from Joseph Dispentiere, an Italian immigrant who had worked as an experimental machinist in New Jersey. Dispentiere had declared himself an atheist and was disappointed by a news report which had cast Einstein as conventionally religious. Einstein replied on 24 March 1954:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

In a letter to Beatrice Frohlich, 17 December 1952 Einstein stated, "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve." Eric Gutkind sent a copy of his book"Choose Life: The Biblical Call To Revolt" to Einstein in 1954. Einstein sent Gutkind a letter in response and wrote, "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text."

In 1945 Guy Raner, Jr. wrote a letter to Einstein, asking him if it was true that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism. Einstein replied, "I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist".

 

[guno]

Einstein believed in a Supreme being.

My Grandparents knew Einstein , He was like me, a secular Jew

This sums his religiously and belief in a god

Einstein expressed his skepticism regarding an anthropomorphic deity, often describing it as "naïve" and "childlike". He stated, "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

On 22 March 1954 Einstein received a letter from Joseph Dispentiere, an Italian immigrant who had worked as an experimental machinist in New Jersey. Dispentiere had declared himself an atheist and was disappointed by a news report which had cast Einstein as conventionally religious. Einstein replied on 24 March 1954:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

In a letter to Beatrice Frohlich, 17 December 1952 Einstein stated, "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve." Eric Gutkind sent a copy of his book"Choose Life: The Biblical Call To Revolt" to Einstein in 1954. Einstein sent Gutkind a letter in response and wrote, "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text."

In 1945 Guy Raner, Jr. wrote a letter to Einstein, asking him if it was true that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism. Einstein replied, "I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist".

Einstein was a Humanist and a supporter of the Ethical Culture movement. He served on the advisory board of the First Humanist Society of New York. For the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, he stated that the idea of Ethical Culture embodied his personal conception of what is most valuable and enduring in religious idealism. He observed, "Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity." He was an honorary associate of the British Humanist organization, the Rationalist Press Association and its journal was among the items present on his desk at his death.

With regard to Divine command theory, Einstein stated, "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms." "A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes. Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death. It is therefore easy to see why the churches have always fought science and persecuted its devotees."

 

[ninja007]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

 

[guno]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

I guess it's good they didn't test you guno, you would have brought the curve way down.

gee another garden variety suckass Low iQ Christer !!! what a surprise!!

 

[guno]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish".

Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954

 

[ninja007]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish".

Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954

if you study the bible and its history and accuracy... you will have to come to the only logical conclusion- it is 100% true.

 

[ninja007]

How do we know the Bible is true ChristianAnswers.Net

 

[guno]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

I guess it's good they didn't test you guno, you would have brought the curve way down.

The got you pegged

A recent review of studies found that religious belief is inversely associated with intelligence. That is, more intelligent people are generally less likely to be religious.

The review found that religious beliefs, such as belief in God, are somewhat more strongly related to lower intelligence

More Knowledge Less Belief in Religion Psychology Today


The problem with the bible thumpers is they are too stupid to know they are stupid

 

[guno]

How do we know the Bible is true ChristianAnswers.Net

Chritian answers? wow a bible thumpers web site "proving" their fairy stories are real, I would never have thought it !!

what a friend they have in Je$uS

"What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!" Pope Leo X.

 

[guno]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish".

Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954

 

[AtheistBuddah]

according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades

"Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies"



Religious people are less intelligent than atheists according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

Well then you have turned intelligence into a vice as much as a virtue. ---- or into pride.

And what of those super intelligent beings convinced of God? (Isaac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, et al.)? Anomalies?

So any quality that can exist and even flourish in the absence of your religion is automatically a vice? How arrogant. And you accuse us of pride.

 

[AtheistBuddah]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

God has nothing to do with it. Because he doesn't exist. Humans who choose to focus their time and energy on religion over their education and critical thinking skills have everything to do with it.

 

[AtheistBuddah]

yes, because God makes unbelievers smarter than those who believe in Him.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish".

Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954

if you study the bible and its history and accuracy... you will have to come to the only logical conclusion- it is 100% true.

My dear friend, just why do think it is myself and many others became atheists?