Now, most of the intelligent and educated people automatically assume that all atheists are dumb and uneducated by default, but is that so?
Like, I've met some atheists who were quite average and not that dumb, so it must not be true.
What have you been smoking?
>>55959664
Please no butthurt atheists ITT
Your average atheist is more intelligent than your average theist.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
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Your average atheist is more intelligent than your average theist.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
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lol I love it when atheists do the "citation needed" thing instead of full sentences. Like they are wikipedia
>Most studies have shown that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal illness) and less anxiety, depression, and suicide.
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196%2811%2962799-7/abstract
>People with no religious affiliation are at an elevated risk with people who are religiously affiliated.
>People with high levels of general religious involvement, organizational religious involvement, religious salience, and intrinsic religious motivation are atreduced risk for depressive symptoms and depressive disorders Longitudinal research is sparse, but suggests that some forms of religious involvement might exert a protective effect against the incidence and persistence of depressive symptoms or disorders.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10480747
>>55959689
Everyone in USA is equally retarded, those studies are irrelevant
also, i already askeed you
>Please no butthurt atheists ITT
>>55959741
>The spiritual and religious group had less distress and less mistrust than the religious-only group (p < .05 for both). Moreover, individuals who perceive themselves to be both spiritual and religious may be at particularly low risk for morbidity and mortality based on their good psychological status and ongoing restorative activities.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12008795
>Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious affiliation. Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children, and had less contact with family members. Furthermore, subjects with no religious affiliation perceived fewer reasons for living, particularly fewer moral objections to suicide. In terms of clinical characteristics, religiously unaffiliated subjects had more lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and past substance use disorder.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/12/2303
>Own religious behaviour is positively correlated with individual life satisfaction. More unusually, average religiosity in the region also has a positive impact: people are more satisfied in more religious regions. This spillover holds both for those who are religious and for those who are not. The flipside of the coin is that a greater proportion of “atheists” (those who say they do not currently belong to any religious denomination) has negative spillover effects, for the religious and atheists alike.
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/56/61/20/PDF/wp200901.pdf
>>55959741
We're talking about intelligence, not reduced risk of suicide.
Saged, filtered, and reported.
>>55959774
>Overall, husbands and wives in first marriages who are very religious have significantly higher marital adjustment scores than spouses who are less religious. Similarly, husbands and wives in first marriages who share the same religious denomination report higher marital adjustment scores than spouses who report different denominations. For spouses in both first marriages and remarriages, those who report that they are “both religious” have higher marital adjustment scores than spouses where both partners are not religious, or where only the wife is religious.
http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/33/2/246.short
>more recent research, with more representative samples and multivariate analysis, provides stronger evidence linking Judeo-Christian religious practices to blood pressure and immune function. The strongest evidence comes from randomized interventional trials reporting the beneficial physiological impact of meditation (primarily transcendental meditation). Overall, available evidence is generally consistent with the hypothesis that religiosity/spirituality is linked to health-related physiological processes--including cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune function
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12674818
>In most countries, religious people report better health; they say they have more energy, that their health is better, and that they experience less pain. Their social lives and personal behaviors are also healthier; they are more likely to be married, to have supportive friends, they are more likely to report being treated with respect, they have greater confidence in the healthcare and medical system and they are less likely to smoke.
http://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/Religion_and_Health_All_August09.pdf
>>55959817
>There is mounting scientific evidence of a positive association between religious involvement and multiple indicators of health. The strongest evidence exists for the association between religious attendance and mortality, with higher levels of attendance predictive of a strong, consistent and often graded reduction in mortality risk. https://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/186_10_210507/wil11060_fm.pdf
>Very religious Americans are more likely to practice healthy behaviors than those who are moderately religious or nonreligious. The most religious Americans score a 66.3 on the Gallup-Healthways Healthy Behavior Index compared with 60.6 among those who are moderately religious and 58.3 for the nonreligious.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145379/Religious-Americans-Lead-Healthier-Lives.aspx
>Religious involvement was significantly associated with lower mortality (odds ratio = 1.29; 95% confidence interval: 1.20-1.39), indicating that people high in religious involvement were more likely to be alive at follow-up than people lower in religious involvement.
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/Papers/rel_mort_meta.pdf
>Religious people are 25 percentage points more likely than secularists to donate money (91 percent to 66 percent) and 23 points more likely to volunteer time (67 percent to 44 percent).
www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6577
>We found that church attendance, dogmatic conviction and a consequential religious attitude affect intentional donations positively. The religiosity of one’s network does have an additional effect. Partner’s church attendance is positively related to willingness to donate.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20058103?uid=3739728&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=56278815123
>>55959559
>stupid masses believe in opiate religion
>stupid peudo-intellectuals, more intelligent that stupid masses, think that knowing religion is an opiate makes them smart
>edgy hispter pseudo-intellectuals embrace religion openly to seperate themselves from stupid pseudo-intellectuals
>>55959816
Maybe you should relax and insert a banana in your ass like a true atheist?
Follow your spiritual leader.
>>55959847
Opps, I stopped listening in the middle, i was looking at the fedora you have dropped
>>55959559
What difference does that is considered to be a god? Grandpa in heaven, nature, aliens, people will always find something to believe in.
>>55959916
lubliu ruskix posterov
krome pidorashek i vatnikov
>>55959891
>being openly class III, edgy hipster pseudo-intellectual embracing religion to avoid being called a fedora
>not being class IV, open, observant, and impartial to all sides of the discussion
>not telling religious fucks that god doesn't exist
>not telling atheist fucks that Einstein believed in god and watching them cry
>>55959954
I love you too, moy smugliy brat. Ya bol'she ne budu krast' polotenca v tvoix otelyax.
>>55960275
Kradi skolka ugodna, mne tak po xui
Na koi xren tebe polotenca?
>hating faggots, being a religious nut and a nationalist
That must be so unique in your Caucasian shithole
Have an upboat
>>55960479
Thanks for proving that you guys are mostly butthurt, uneducated and dumb.
Keep up.
>>55960302
Prosto ya dumayu, chto esli v otele napisano "Vse vklyucheno", to ya mogu zabrat' s soboy daje televizor.
>>55960533
Views like that must be prevalent in Georgia
Why is your country so poor and shit if you're all so smart then?
>>55960626
no zachem tebe ani? Shto ti s nimi delaesh?
>>55960680
nice "logic" there. Are all Slovakians equally smart?
>>55960197
This 2bqh
>>55959559
You've got that backwards there senpai
>>55960857
>American
>being retarded
no surprises here.
Who /unironical atheist/ here?
>>55960729
Xranyu kak suvenir
>>55961029
>hurr durr I can prove the non-existance of all gods
you must have converted recently, I have it on good authority you were raised phallist because your mother worships my dick
>>55961165
I can't prove the non-existance of god.
>>55961216
religion is founded on faith, i.e. the belief in something regardless of a lack of evidence to prove its existence
>>55961301
I know. I don't have that faith, that's why I'm not religious.
>>55961349
faith is a good and important part of being human
god is no different from other social constructs, like love
>>55961481
>social construct
fuck off to reddit
