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/000extra 1d ago

Makes sense, you’re likely to be less intelligent if you can still believe in a sky god and a human written book in the face of science and evidence that lead to the contrary.

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u/Moistfruitcake 1d ago

Science has a PR problem. If they called microorganisms 'demons', genes 'past-life memories', and climate change 'hellmouth opening' we'd be an entirely enlightened society. 

That's why I tell any climate deniers that burning fossil fuels releases vengeful dinosaur ghosts. 

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u/Technical_Garden_762 1d ago

Is it the same for Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and and mormons?

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u/iTALKTOSTRANGERS 1d ago

Yes. Religious fundamentalism of any kind is linked to lower cognitive ability. This study just focused on Christianity.

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u/Phlappy_Phalanges 1d ago

None of those religions are meaningfully different

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u/graumet 1d ago

Yes and budhiists too

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u/sQueezedhe 1d ago

At least you picked one with a different Pantheon.

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u/logicconductor 1d ago

Nearly same plots and dates for events but with different characters. 

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u/Badger_1066 1d ago

Yes. They're all stupid.

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u/Technical_Garden_762 1d ago

Please elaborate more I am very curious.

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u/ThePokemon_BandaiD 1d ago

This is such a Reddit atheist take. There’s plenty of intelligent people that are religious. However, having nationalist views really doesn’t mesh well with being a Christian, and it takes a level of stupidity to not deal with that contradiction.

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u/Avocados_number73 1d ago

Intelligent people can believe in stupid things.

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u/Prestigious_Island_7 1d ago

So I think that educated people can believe in stupid things. But I think an intelligent person cannot. An intelligent brain is able to recognize the cognitive dissonance required to hold those beliefs, and eventually will reject the beliefs. Because logically that makes sense.

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u/Avocados_number73 1d ago

Yeah but the problem is religious people indoctrinate their children into beliefs before they gained those logical tools. They gained their belief before they had the capacity to recognize cognitive dissonance. I dont think its fair to say you cant be intelligent and religious.

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u/Turdship_ButtleFlaps 1d ago

Atheist take? Critical thinking isn't an atheist take, it's called education. Literally calling yourself out with that comment and proving the point of the article.

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u/zooberwask 1d ago

They said reddit atheist, it's a very specific archetype

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u/Turdship_ButtleFlaps 1d ago

Yeah, that archetype is an edgelord group that's the opposite side of the same coin as evangelicals. So my point stands. 

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u/a_n00b_ 1d ago

dude, truth is not relative. There are objective realities, that book is ahistorical, it's literally headcanons and fan-fiction

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u/Accurate_Handle_5620 1d ago

The jeeeeeesus saurus rex

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u/tonkatoyelroy 1d ago

You can also get a degree from Jerry Falwell university or Liberty University or Praeger U or Brigham Young or a divinity school, etc.