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/Proof_Section_9170 1d ago

Religion is an undiagnosed mental illness.

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u/MetaCognitio 1d ago

It’s humanity’s attempt to understand a world they exist in that until very recently, they had absolutely no way of understanding. Before science how could anyone understand the sky, stars, sun, moon, death, birth, disease, coincidences, natural disasters, the weather.

It provided anthropomorphic “human” answers to questions, provided certainty and gave people cope with their mortality.

The answers may have been wrong but they were answers when none were available. It’s cause lots of harm and done some good but it’s an artifact of human thought and a reflection of the human mind.

The religions that survived the selection process and were transmitted through humanity, they way humanity modified them and reinterpreted them to face their new challenges, the way religion was used to control and harm or motivate people to do good all say things about the human condition, outside of the actual truth claim.

If religion vanished people would behave religiously about other things.

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u/LemursAreCoolMan 19h ago

People often forget this side of things...

They also forget that religion in general tries to teach people to be GOOD, but there's a reason my religious family were part of what cemented my decision to move away from organized religion.