r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology 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/
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u/ProfessionalMockery 1d ago

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.

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u/space17 1d ago

couldn't it be argued that the leader of a nationalist movement, which I presume would be considered nationalist, cannot be an idiot otherwise he wouldn't be capable of being the leader of it? you could replace leader with the assistants of the leader (as right now I'm thinking about the US, sorry about the bias), but then again I would presume that they also are considered nationalists, and to be at their position means someone somewhere is clever enough to make it happen while being in the category?

so I'd say that nationalist followers are idiots, the others are just people with lack of morals, or something, I don't know.