I have truncated this headline of a really interesting and evocative article. The actual article, on Huffington Post website, is titled: "Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-are-atheists-generally-smarter-than-religious-people_us_59385ac8e4b0b13f2c6677d2)
I very much lean toward atheism. Although I have to say since Trump was elected I say a prayer every night for our future. I'm sure it's learned behavior from my upbringing. Bill Maher's brilliant documentary in 2008 titled Religious really made me come to a conclusion. But I still have a huge curiosity of the massiveness and the complexity of the universe.
So maybe I'm an atheist. But I know for sure that I'm NOT smarter. The algebraic question in this article baffled me. I simply do not understand algebra or math word problems.
This article is a very curious discussion. And a great movie!
Goodness, that link had a lot of words! My eyes began to glaze over before I was finished with it. I don't think it's a matter of "intelligence", it's just an unwillingness to reject superstition as "fake news".
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