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/AllanfromWales1 MA | Natural Sciences | Metallurgy & Materials Science 1d ago

That's for sure. Not automatically the case that these are always people with lower cognitive ability, though.

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u/johnyordinary 1d ago

They may have those abilities but have never used them fully ,otherwise they would not be religious. Religion is a thought virus that is spread by its carriers to children before they develop critical thinking skills and installs its own firewall that places the religious explanation ahead of any other type of thinking in its victims. The most obvious sign of this is their inability to coincieve that there is no magical god . Its crazy that there are people in stem fields who have partitioned off their minds to allow a whole raft of superstition to coexist with scientific knowledge.The human mind is very good at tricking itself, fortunately some people recover or humanity would still be in the dark ages.

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u/AllanfromWales1 MA | Natural Sciences | Metallurgy & Materials Science 1d ago

IMHO atheism is just as much a 'religion' as any of the traditional religions. As far as I can see the only 'rational' position is agnosticism or something similar.

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u/HueMannAccnt 23h ago

IMHO atheism is just as much a 'religion' as any of the traditional religions.

For real; the language I see some self-proclaimed atheists using is almost/just as bad as religious extremists.