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Thanks to a couple of surveys, it’s being put about in certain circles that atheists have higher IQs than believers. That may or may not be the case, but one problem with this argument is that, if you accept "average group differences in IQ”, you get into all sorts of sinister debates which bien pensant atheist Lefties might find less to their liking.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk...
let’s see who is living more intelligently.
And guess what: it’s the believers. A vast body of research, amassed over recent decades, shows that religious belief is physically and psychologically beneficial – to a remarkable degree.
In 2004, scholars at UCLA revealed that college students involved in religious activities are likely to have better mental health. In 2006, population researchers at the University of Texas discovered that the more often you go to church, the longer you live. In the same year researchers at Duke University in America discovered that religious people have stronger immune systems than the irreligious. They also established that churchgoers have lower blood pressure.
Meanwhile in 2009 a team of Harvard psychologists discovered that believers who checked into hospital with broken hips reported less depression, had shorter hospital stays, and could hobble further when they left hospital – as compared to their similarly crippled but heathen fellow-sufferers.
So which is the smart party, here? Is it the atheists, who live short, selfish, stunted little lives – often childless – before they approach hopeless death in despair, and their worthless corpses are chucked in a trench (or, if they are wrong, they go to Hell)? Or is it the believers, who live longer, happier, healthier, more generous lives, and who have more kids, and who go to their quietus with ritual dignity, expecting to be greeted by a smiling and benevolent God?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Stormdancer777
Wow. I'm a little offended you didn't put much effort into that besides copy and pasting. Surely we atheists deserve a little more enthusiasm than that? Where's the cat fighting and the accusations and the bible thumping righteous indignation? At least make it interesting!edit on 17-8-2013 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
laughed at it
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Stormdancer777
I repeat: my jimmies are unrustled, n00b. Greatest insult in all of the interwebs. You have failed as a troll.
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
reply to post by Stormdancer777
On the other hand, being around Christians all the time is not good for the blood pressure either.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Or is it the believers, who live longer, happier, healthier...
Years of reading the Christian bashing on the forum makes me wonder if you actually are able to accept others that believe differently.
Are atheists mentally ill?