Anonymous #2 1d

Albert Einstein believed in god too

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Well those are just stupid religious ppl. There are stupid irreligious ppl as well who will say the earth is flat bc that’s what they visually observe. I’d say both intelligent and stupid people come in all creeds or lack thereof, but that most intelligent people historically have been religious of some kind (bc most people historically and even now in fact are religious). The Muslim guy who invented algebra legit started his treatise out by thanking and praising God on and on

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I’m not sure they are tbh, I was also just replying to your comment to make a rhetorical point to onlookers reading that wouldn’t have considered said ideas if I hadn’t brought them up

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Anonymous #2 1d

im willing to bet that religious people are more likely to believe the earth is flat than non religious people

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Anonymous #7 1d

if someone grew up with it and decided to stay, i also kinda view them as unintelligent. it makes me feel like they arent an independent or critical thinker (although some might be)

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Anonymous OP 1d

A lot of people stay in religion not because they believe in it but for the community aspect and the familial traditions

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Anonymous #8 1d

Just did some research apparently religious people tend to have higher intelligence

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Anonymous #8 23h

I think they mean in modern times when it’s not the end of the world if you aren’t religious. Also #5 most people in history were religious to some extent (wasn’t much of a choice and they were pretty much brainwashed since birth) so that likely skews data. I’d say the average modern atheist is smarter than the adv modern theist.

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Anonymous OP 21h

Well the people who figured out the world was round in the first place were religious. The vast majority of people in the world are and have been religious, that allows for more dynamism among populations with a higher likelihood of believing any number of things. What drives flat earthers is stupidity laced conspiracy culture and distrust of authority with confirmation bias, which irreligious people are just as prone to

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Anonymous #3 16h

If your morality depends on calling strangers stupid, maybe the book isn’t the problem… i’ve never been super religious, but reducing 2,000 years of philosophy and theology to ‘fictional book’ is certainly… efficient.

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Anonymous OP 13h

Yeah bill maher and sam Harris are such critical thinkers bro

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Anonymous #10 13h

Not just efficient. Convenient lol

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Anonymous #12 12h

Maybe for the close-minded

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Anonymous #10 12h

That’s why I was saying it’s convenient. They don’t want to think about it too hard, so they call everyone who has thought about it stupid

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Anonymous #12 12h

I suppose the reasoning varies from person to person though. Some are unwilling to think about it, others are too scared to, and some are incapable of it. I will note that it’s a common sign of stupidity for someone to call anything they can’t understand or they disagree with stupid though, so perhaps there’s come correlation with that observation and OP’s phrasing 😉

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Anonymous #9 7h

Statistically inaccurate according to studies of a relatively large sample size of university students

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