Religious stupidity (Is this an oxymoron?)
Posted on 15th June, 2008 by Heather
The silly - albeit flattering - view that atheists are not as stupid as religious people, according to some deeply spurious IQ -based research, has suddenly got a boost from an unexpected quarter.
“God is not just for the stupid, say Christianity’s clever people”, according to the Telegraph.
Who are these clever people?
“The Christian think tank Theos “
Well, that still makes none, by my reckoning.
The post about this daft research on the Register also brought a swathe of Christian commenters who all seemed to know their “IQ” to the exact unfeasibly high last digit. (Thereby suggesting, if nothing else, that a high level of belief in the objective validity and accuracy of IQ scores correlates with a high level of belief in, well, anything.)
Nice comment, from “Carl”
I always thought that the reason that there were less stupid comments on El Reg articles on a Sunday was because IT pros don’t work weekends - now I know it’s because they’re all at church…
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