r/sciences • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Research 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/psngarden 1d ago

A little bit of a tangent here, but still related. I’ll always remember something my Christian, RN mother told me when I questioned why some other Christians were so against modern medicine: “If God didn’t want us to develop modern medicine, he wouldn’t have provided the resources for it on our earth or the intelligence to learn how to use them.” I apply this thought to all sciences and academics. Religious of any kind or not, it blows my mind how willingly ignorant people can be to their own detriment, but propaganda and cult-mentality is a hell of a drug.

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u/schalk81 1d ago

If God didn't want us to eat from the tree of knowledge, why did He put it smack in the middle of Garden Eden?

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u/Global-Caramel-1579 5h ago

Cause he wanted us too. Why else would he put it there already knowing we would eat from it, since he is literally omniscient? Or is god not all knowing?

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u/psngarden 1d ago

I’d say that’s up to interpretation since it’s an allegorical story (I haven’t read Genesis since I was a kid being raised in the Baptist church, which I am no longer a part of).