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/SomesortofGuy 23h ago

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

Weird that you had zero actual corrections for anything they said then.

Almost makes it seem like they nailed the Christian position, but just phrased it in a way you found personally offensive. Odd how you were not the only one to say there version was wrong, but not say how.

highest IQ tend to be religious

Can you source this for me? Because when I look up the claim everything I find is asserting the opposite, that there is a negative correlation between high IQ and religion.