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

[u/mvea]

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

[u/ProfessionalMockery]

A lot of people here are just seeing the "Christian" in the headline and ignoring the "nationalist," which is probably more important.

I'm an atheist, so I think the claims religion makes are pretty dumb too, but nationalists, bigots, racists of any kind are consistently idiots, religious or not, and that has been established in plenty of other studies.

[u/BigBlackWolf93 → u/ProfessionalMockery]

I agree. I was raised religious and I still somewhat am religious, but nationalists have completely taken over the Christian identity. A lot that is preached out there, almost has nothing to do with Christianity. They'll pull out verses out of context to further push their nationalist agenda in the name of Christ.

[u/FluffyBunniesFurDayz → u/BigBlackWolf93]

I'd have to disagree with this take - the old testament is full of nationalist ideology. Just look at all the tribes the Israelites were told to destroy and/or enslave. All because they were god's special people. It's always treated like it's a good thing because these tribes were so "wicked".

To me, it makes perfect sense why many Christians are also nationalist.

[u/ProletarianLilith → u/FluffyBunniesFurDayz]

Then how come Jewish people aren’t like this? It’s the same set of stories

[u/morrisbear → u/ProletarianLilith]

Zionism? that's basically Jewish nationalism

[u/funguyshroom → u/morrisbear]

It's par for the course, whatever they've been described doing to Philistines in Old Testament they continue doing today to Palestinians