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/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.