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- From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.161954.8588@prime.mdata.fi>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 16:19:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.172158.11967@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- n>Although I think that you are right in general, I wanted to add that all (6)
- >the exceptionally smart people I know (IQ>125), including myself, are Christians
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- What if we lift the limit to 160?
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- >except one who is an atheist.
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- >Religion is often connected to feelings. Feelings are unintelligent and if you
- >yourself are not very intelligent, your feelings will make sense and seem
- >coherent. How often haven't you heard Christians say "Listen to your heart"? Such
- >a statement shows that they allow their feelings to rule their world. This is
- >harder for someone whose rationale exceeds her feelings. She will be more able to
- >cut through and behave rationally despite of her feelings. She will also be able
- >to see that her feelings are *not* coherent and therefore is less likely to
- >become religious.
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- Yes, when they are right-brain dominant, their feelings govern more.
- In one way right-brain intelligence is intelligence, that's why I specified
- that it has to be logical (left-brain) intelligence that causes atheism.
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- >Onar.
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