Does being an atheist make you smart?

Does being an atheist make you smart?

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No.

Yes.

Not at all. But I really encourage people to make up their own mind about things. And if their conclusion is to still be religious, at least they've thought things through on their own.

Anyone who blindly believes what their parents tought them or fall for any indoctrination without thinking critically, is lost and a hopeless little slave.

>Anyone who blindly believes what their parents tought them or fall for any indoctrination without thinking critically, is lost and a hopeless little slave.

Atheists confirmed to be slaves.

No, but being smart makes you statistically more likely to be smart.

Maybe.

No, but being smart generally makes people turn into atheists or at least agnostics.

This. OP's cause and effect are backwards.

Being agnostic would. At least then your basically saying you have no idea what fuck is going on and don't know everything.

>2085 gods
>only believes in one
>99.95% atheist

Heathen scum

Every other retarded and autistic faggot is an atheist...

If you base your life and entire perception around the text of ancient myths and the ensuing delusion, you are probably fucking stupid.

If you're a godfag then those retarded autists are probably still smarter than you.

Kek, atheists are the biggest idiots on the planet.

And what percentage of atheists are retarded or autistic user?

difference between cause and effect

getting fucked in the ass won't make you gay
being gay will make you get fucked in the ass

Everyones an atheist today.

No, but being smart usually makes you an atheist

The fact that the most developed and higher IQ nations are the most atheist while the worst shitholes are the most religious really throws a wrench in your argument.

Uhm yes you koon im athiest and im top of class Harvard niglet go back to the Mosque and build a bomb. Or get some knowledge and convert you fucking hellen keller looking ass

Statistically YES.

No, but being smart will likely make you an atheist.

Fuck off. Being agnostic is just being non-committal. You DON'T have to accept something as possible simply because you can't prove it isn't false. Russell's Teapot. Look into it.

>developed and higher IQ nations are the most atheist

What about
>Switzerland
>United States
>Singapore
>Israel
>Qatar
>Saudi-Arabia

These are all religious nations with a high human development.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2015_Human_Development_Report

>>Qatar
>>Saudi-Arabia
>Qatar
>Saudi-Arabia
you cant be serious.

You know there's almost 200 nations on the planet right?

Also,

>Saudi Arabia and Qatar
>high IQ

wew lad

High human development according to

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2015_Human_Development_Report

and all religious.

Stay jelly, fedora atheists.

Dubs doesn't lie.

>iq = human development index,
you fucking dumb lying piece of shit, they are not the same thing.

me as an exsample

See you fucking dumb sandnigger. you thought you where being really smart there

>Source

No, but many smart people tend to be atheist.

>believing everything in a picture without a source

Yeah, being an atheist really makes you intelligent.

yes. because you choose not to believe some stupid fairytale and ignore scientifically proven facts

What about China? They outlawed religion for the longest time and they're still a shithole.

Check any fucking iq index with your "source" bullshit. and its always sauce you stupid newnigcunt.

Came here to say this. It's like asking if washing your hands makes you smart. No, but if you're smart, you probably will wash your hands.

They have high HDI because they sit on the largest oil reserves on planet earth which equals liquid gold. I added IQ because I knew some clown would use those nations and because it's very relevant.

You picked exceptions to the rule otherwise. 3 out of 200 nations don't follow the general trend. I say 3 because Switzerland doesn't belong there are all, it;s one of the more atheistic countries on Earth.

So you have Israel, Singapore and the US. Other than that, the trend is what I said it is.

No being a satanist makes you smart. Reply if you agree. For the glory of Satan.. ;]

believing that just attacking the source is argumentation, real smart.
Its a simple statistic that you can find back any where.

The opposite. Only those who accept the islam god are truly gifted

Disbelieving anything with out checking the facts is even dimmer.

The south of china has allot of proto negroid admixture and has a low iq avg, around 90

>IQ is a useful indicator

They have high human development, are happy and rich. So yeah religious people are doing better than fedora atheists.

And Switzerland is extremely Christian, if you were ever there.

There are also a lot of religious countries with high development I didn't include like Ireland.

China doesn't really qualify as a shithole in 2017, it's well on the path to being a superpower and the richest nation on Earth. More importantly it is a trend, less than 5 exceptions out of 200 does not change the rule.

No.

Its a start, but no.

>almost 1 in 5 people live there
>less than 2/3 of American economical power

Your numbers are so off it's laughable. Switzerland and Ireland are among the most atheist nations on Earth. You have 2 exceptions out of 200, literally 1% of the whole.

The most atheist nations are the best on Earth, the least atheist are the shittiest. It is a very obvious trend.

No but being smart does tend to make you an athiest particularly if you have experience of multiple belief systems and scientific knowledge.

You can still be smart and have a blind spot or be in denial when it comes to religion though it's hard to break conditioning if it started in early childhood.

The smarter you are the more you tend to question and asking questions is anathema to blind faith, which is more about accepting answers without evidence.

Smarter religious people tend to be less fundamental and question their faith more especially if they are exposed to other ways of thinking.

works deduction ever.

post is mine. I'm an agnostic. Met a lot of die-hard catholics, some of them really smart, very empathetic and open-minded. We simply disagreed in religious views.

If you blindly followed your parents, no matter if you became an atheist or a religious person that way, you are an intellectual cuck.

youtube.com/watch?v=kttVCbTrDLw

>50% of jews are arabs
>arabs are stupid
>isearl jews are stupid
>The only jews with high iqs are the Ashkenazim and they lived all this time in eurasia and never had any admixture with negroids.

Are you fucking retarded? Ireland is extremely catholic and Switzerland is very Christian.

*worst deduction

It still doesn't qualify as a shithole, a lot has changed in the past 20 years.

No, that's just called "burden of proof". It's not on me to research, it's on you to prove.

Look up the stats you ignoramus.

of fucking course they are going better after abolishing communism and socialism

Still, their cities are so polluted you have to wear breathing mask to not get sick.

White man rolling for dubs.

...

Ayyyyy. ;]

i already posted the nice graph that has corresponding data with the global iq institute, i provided proof, have fun debunking it you stupid nigger.

No, atheists are as bad as Western Christians nowadays.

>forcing others to only accept their beliefs
>trying to outlaw everything against their beliefs (like suing a Catholic PRIVAT school to get rid of all crosses)
>never question their own point of view

Dude dont get worked up by these untermenschen not even being able to check wiki.

I've heard of it. my only argument is that people shouldn't close their minds to things prematurely without proper evidence. I'm personally non religious but wouldn't call myself agnostic. I lean more to atheism, but if a religious idiot wants to present their religion in a objective and non stupid way I'm not going to discount just because it doesn't fit into my beliefs.

Asians simply lack empathy, only Caucasians posses that gene.

Being an atheist should make you more acceptable of various sciences, whereas theism conjures a certain scepticism against the sciences, especially when they contradict theism.
So it doesn't makes you smarter per se, but it does gives you acces to a larger array of knowledge

PS Atheism is for pussies, real men are antitheists

It doesn't make you smart in general but it does make you smarter than religious people. But saying you're smarter than a double digit iq retard that believes in fairy tales isn't something to be proud of

China just replaced blind faith in religion with blind faith in communist ideology and dogma, which they did to keep the communist status quo going with any (or not much) opposition.

>that has corresponding data
Fucking finally. Took you long enough. So, you realize that this is the first time you're citing a source, right? If I whipped up a graph with 1000 hours in MS paint, that doesn't mean it's accurate. For as smart as you think you are, you seriously act indignant about having to cite a source?

>implying china hasn't been improving shit rapidly over the last few years while getting fitted for their new world leader crown because the uk and usa are fuckups

>implying burden of proof demands the person being told something look it up themselves
Yeah, ok. As smart as you think you are, that's pretty fucking dumb of you.

Why are you so fucking dumb that you cant look up a fact? Why are you arguing when you are wrong?
Why do you argue when you know that you dont know the subject?
Why argue with fact?

wut?

in a way its a sort of ignorance. but its the same for the other side as well

No, you discount it because they (generally) believe in one MORE God than you, out of thousands ever, and because the burden is on them to PROVE it. It doesn't matter what I believe now. Solid proof changes that. If they COULD prove it, cool. I'd probably be religious.

No, but there's a positive correlation between increased intelligence and likelyhood of being an atheist

>inb4 spicy meemz

No, but it hopefully means you are willing to question things in a critical and logical manner, people who just accept atheism without critical thought are no better than anyone else who has accepted religion without ever asking the hard questions, when you let other people do your thinking for you then you are not better than an animal, even if you arrive the right answer you are no better.

No, but I've yet to meet a religious person who I'd describe as "smart" - They never stand out as anything other than someone who does what they're told. Which sometimes leads them to have good grades and skills in certain fields, since they're just told to study and work and they do it without question. I've been an atheist since I was a kid, and it's very difficult to see the world any differently than a bunch of people too afraid to question what they've come to know as reality.

If you want to play with the grownups, there are a set of standards you're expected to adhere to. If your can't adhere, go back to the sandbox. Simple as that.

If you refuse to backup a claim, then the "proof" isn't proof at all. It's an unsubstantiated claim.

This is only because the top countries have better acces to education, i'm a black man in the Netherlands and my IQ was checked at 126, so how would you explain that Sup Forums?

No fucking way these values are true. You are considered mentally retarded with an IQ lower than 70 in my country.

i could easily spend 1,5 hours to make up some fake website saying anything but you will always keep attacking the source even if you would take the iq test on your dumb brown friends yourself.
Check wikipedia stupid

No, not all. In fact most atheist simply replace religion with political ideology or some other form. They're just as dogmatic about their chosen ideology as any religious nut is about their chosen religion. It's a rarity to meet an atheist, or any person, that is actually a cold hard fact driven critical thinker. I truly believe you have to be missing a part of yourself to be 100% logical and critical on top of being highly educated. Mainly the emotional side of things has to be nixed.

Or we can use something like Hard Science, or as it's normally called, Natural Science to help along the way.

I do see your point. I think it is everyone's obligation to objectively question everything.

If you want to discredit my graph you have to bring in some statistics of iq yourself that counter mine, this crying that you are doing now is not proving anything other then the fact that you are lazy dumb and unwilling to accept the fact that brown ppl are genetically dumb.

Why, yes.

You have to be somewhat educated to be an atheist, otherwise religious teachings sound logical. If you think failed arguments are logical and equal to good and valid arguments then you have no other option but to be a theist. After all, who wouldn't love the idea of having somebody omnipotent take care of them? -On top of that you have to understand chaotic nature of the world, general morale and decission making taking place in all humans, and how you are not unique from perspective of biological evolution or astronomy. Infact, you have to understand that nothing is truly unique in the sense as described by religion. Because all of that being fit together with the claim that there's an omnipotent being puppeteering this show makes no sense. It takes analytical mindset and pondering to end up in the conclusion that either there is no god or he is not what we expect of him. It's a different matter to end in the conclusion because somebody has indoctrinated you, but then again most people are indoctrinated to be theists. Being indoctrinated means you didn't need to figure out the puzzle, instead somebody gave their solution to you.

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but being religious does imply stupidity

I haven't even argued that point, genius. I'm just disappointed at what you think constitutes evidence. But hey, whatever you tell yourself about me to make you feel better.

no but high iq people tend to be less religious

>2017
>not being a Pantheist

embarrassing

I have a theory this universe could possibly be a simulated environment being used to develop safe AI.

In which case we would be AI agents being studied and when we die if we are considered to be beneficent AIs we are promoted to a new simulation and given more power.

Those AIs which pass the tests will be promoted eventually to run something in the real world.

The premise for this is by generating lots of agents in a rich environment where they can interact you can weed out the greedy, domineering and dangerous ones and harvest the most selfless and beneficent.

>but being religious does imply stupidity
Einstein was religious, you fucking idiot. What have you fedora fags ever done to be called smart? Religious people have morals and try to have a good life while you are wasting your life browsing a Finnish trap forum.

>baiting this hard
>implying attacking the source is an invalid way to disprove claims
>STILL doesn't understand burden of proof
>assertions on my behavior in the future
Yeah, ok. Have fun over there in dreamland.

Fair enough. I believe that burned of proof isn't in on me to do the legwork. If someone has proof, let them come. Otherwise, I'll continue to believe what I do.

yeah im not going to show you pictures of a round planet im just going to not bother with your dumb brown ass which is unable to google world iq, if you had any point you would just bring out the contradicting numbers and burn me with that. instead your wrong brown ass attacks source and character.

>You have to be somewhat educated to be an atheist, otherwise religious teachings sound logical.
Oh god you kept typing after this nonsense. The clergy were the most highly educated people for centuries. Other people were quite ignorant and dumb unless they were educated by the church. Most scientific discoveries were by religious scientists/nobles. Newton for instance. You're indoctrinated to the point where you think atheism is a cult of itself which is in opposition to religious cults when in reality you're very fucking weird and hostile to religious people with your ill begotten superiority complex.

yes and some ppl have the iq of a mentally disabled person.
>low esteem for retards is showing.

>instead your wrong brown ass attacks source and character.
Whatever you say, pot. Have a nice day.