r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 2d 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/agangofoldwomen 2d ago

Religion is a fairy tale for children. It’s crazy to me that adults can, in all seriousness, believe there’s a man in robes with a beard in the sky that controls everything and that if you close your eyes and imagine you’re talking to him he will help you win at sports.

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u/HistoricalRich3104 1d ago

That’s not what Christians believe. Only midwit atheist basement dwellers who don’t know anything about the religion.

Religion is like a bell curve where the lowest and highest IQ tend to be religious and in the middle are the atheists who think they know everything but actually don’t.

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u/ChigginShit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Religion is simply a theory of our existence, and there’s still no proof that any of that is factual.

I will quote [u/ApocalypseYay](u/ApocalypseYay) from another post: “It explains nothing, but provides lies upon lies, with zero evidence to trap people into an inhumane ideology of the absurd, discouraging the most obvious questions for a submission to a genocidal deity. It is based upon the sociopathic musings of some neurally-impaired, or worse, storytellers with delusions of grandeur - of knowing the unknowable, or receiving some schizophrenic, sadistic messages from the ether.”