God is the Santa for adults.

http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/imag...s_religion.png
Notice a trend?

a lot more ppl beilve in ghosts hhhm how interesting https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1055373&page=2

The graph shown above relates the arithmetic mean IQ measured in various country's populations, to the fraction of each country's population that believes religion is very important.

The green diamonds represent individual countries; the yellow line is a linear regression (y = mx + b), calculated by the least squares method. The United States data point is circled in red. TK Solver was used to create the graph from the data listed in the table below:

The data shown above begs the question: what would be revealed by a survey that correlated IQ and religiosity on an individual basis? Within a given population, is religion more important to persons of high intelligence, or low intelligence?


The religious attitude data is from a poll that was part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

The question wording used in the poll was as follows:

How important is religion in your life—very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important?

The report available online only lists the percentage that said religion was 'very important'. The data from the report is listed below:

Religion Very Important

North America:
U.S. 59 %
Canada 30 %

West Europe:
Great Britain 33 %
Italy 27 %
Germany 21 %
France 11 %

East Europe:
Poland 36 %
Ukraine 35 %
Slovakia 29 %
Russia 14 %
Bulgaria 13 %
Czech 11 %

Conflict Area:
Pakistan 91 %
Turkey 65 %
Uzbekistan 35 %

Latin America:
Guatemala 80 %
Brazil 77 %
Honduras 72 %
Peru 69 %
Bolivia 66 %
Venezuela 61 %
Mexico 57 %
Argentina 39 %

Asia:
Indonesia 95 %
India 92 %
Philipines 88 %
Bangladesh 88 %
Korea 25 %
Vietnam 24 %
Japan 12 %

Africa:
Senegal 97 %
Nigeria 92 %
Ivory Coast 91 %
Mali 90 %
South Africa 87 %
Kenya 85 %
Uganda 85 %
Ghana 84 %
Tanzania 83 %
Angola 80 %

the lower the IQ the higher the %age of ppl who consider religion important ...

lol, i NEVER believed in god -- not even as the youngest kid :warning

For many, this is true. Many others grow up and develop an adult understanding of who Saint Nick really was, and who or what God really is. These people can separate their five year old understanding from their adult understanding in both cases.

Few, upon learning that there are no flying reindeer, assume that means a mature understanding of Saint Nick is impossible. Yet, they decide that because their childish understanding of God was, well, childish, their must not be any adult understanding of the concept. Surely there is nothing they can learn. Whatever their understanding was at age five must be the only understanding they can ever have. How peculiar.

I love how arrogant people can be to just dismiss the idea that there might be a first cause behind the universe outright. Yeah, I get why people make fun of the bible with talking snakes and men living inside fish in it. I'm sympathetic to that, but at the same time, given the universe that we're living in, it's very persuasive, the idea that there is some kind of first cause that's running things. It might not be the god of Westboro Baptist church, it might not be the god of al-qaeda, and it might not be the god of Abraham, but something could very well be running things. The order of the universe as we see it, the interlocking nature, and the way things work together, are persuasive of the idea that there may be some overarching first cause.

Scientists don't know shit. What is human logic in the grand scheme of things?

could we in fact be living in the matrix?

See what I mean?

I'm dyslexic, so the answer is No!

I only believe in DOG! ;)

Funny how everyone that claims to be an atheist only support their claims with Other's quotes/thoughts ... God much??

A resounding NO!!

For the same reason I dont believe in the tooth-fairy

We now know there are more then 1 trillion galaxies, each with billions or even trillions of suns and quadrillions of planets...

God just got a whole lot busier.





Oh and the "Universe" is now thought to actually be a "Multiverse" wrap your head around that flat-earthers...

And we have a winner.

This had to go on page 2 for those that missed it...fucking awesome


"But he loves you" :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Religion = politics = crowd control
Just my humble opinion

epic fail: god does NOT equal religion

Just curious if you believe in Saint Nick, or if you also decided that because four year olds have a cartoon view of him, he must not be real.

Cartoon Saint Nick != grown up Saint Nick
Cartoon God != grown up God

What's the point of this thread?

So that sigwhores like you can post in it.

1/3 of the people here believe in God?

Shotsie Gods has been the excuse for a lack of real knowledge through the millenniums. As we learn more, we understand how the earth, sun solar system, man, animals, treea were created. What's left to discover?

The "Big Bang" then what will the ignorant have to cling to?

The problem is everything you've been told by people peddling God to you can be proven as a lie or as ignorance.

Yes I believe in God