obviously this doesn’t mean that only dumb people are religious, or all atheists are smart. Just that religious people tend to have lwoer IQs and atheists tend to have higher IQs. YMMV. if you’re dumb as a post and become an atheist, you don’t get smarter.
it can be open to what the causes are, but the set of really smart people does not overlap tremendously with the set of really religious people, I think. I could be wrong about this. but it didn’t think i t was really in dispute.
is church gonna get us back to the good old days?
Ha! fat frickin chance…i don’t think it’ll make people dumber. any more than it’ll make people better. or kinder. or less likely to shoot me. id think heavy analysis religions, with lots of analytic reading and arguemnt, like Judaism, can at least provide a good mental workout. might tend to encourage more mental activity than a more passive sit and watch relgiion.
