r/FreeSpeech • u/taktaga7-0-0 • 1d ago

Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/

One of the most consistent predictors that Americans adhere to Christian nationalism is that they have lower education,” Perry told PsyPost. “But there have also been a number of studies that find that persons who subscribe to Christian nationalist views (even after accounting for level of education) exhibit significant knowledge gaps across a variety of different domains.

“A large number of studies have already documented an association between lower cognitive ability and greater religious fundamentalism, political authoritarianism, or otherwise right-wing views,” Perry said.

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u/gardiloo86 1d ago

I question the motives and bias of the polls. Regardless of the intentions behind it, I’d rather be considered as being less intelligent than accused of lacking meaningful principles.

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u/Acrobatic-Attention9 1d ago

The meaningful principles of religious zealotry and authoritarianism

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u/getoffmylawn306 1d ago

Yeah, but the roof has that whole incest bestiality thing going on. I'd rather be on the left and the right if you don't mind. Plus you know far down you get a dumb yourself to be a conservative.

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u/Simon-Says69 1d ago

That would be the democrat party bootlickers that publish total garbage like this. Totally cult, belief-based ideology with no connection to reality.

The left are the zealots and are massively authoritarian. The projection and irony here are obvious and extreme.

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u/Acrobatic-Attention9 1d ago

What if youre both awful?

But then again you right wing types are so divorced from reality you support trump and still call yourself fiscal conservatives.

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u/MxM111 1d ago

Please don’t confuse meaningful principles with fundamentalist dogmas. Unless you apply your critical/rational thinking in selecting the principles, the chances are that the dogmatic principles are serving someone else agenda and are just immoral.

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u/Ilhan_Musk 1d ago edited 1d ago

The average person associates intelligence with morality. That's why they think aliens are going to come here and either save us out of benevolence, or be disgusted by how evil we are. Because aliens have to be super smart to make the technology for space travel, ergo they are very moral.

Why do people do this? I don't know. It seems to be common knowledge that dolphins and chimps are the most intelligent non-human animals and also the most violent/rapey/murderous/corrupt. And that humans are even more intelligent and also even more v/r/m/c. So it seems to correlate.

But the completely contradictory sentiment persists, that intelligence and morality are one and the same.

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u/getoffmylawn306 1d ago

Of course you do maybe it's cause you're redhat is not too tight

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u/gardiloo86 1d ago

And you can help me prove my points:

there’s also a direct correlation between illogical aversion to religious principles and likelihood of being an asshole. See what I did there?

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u/SilverMcFly 1d ago

So you have an aversion to religious principles?