Atheism Makes You Smart!
By now it should be very clear to anyone who has read even just a few comment threads, whether in a forum or social media website, that by the simple virtue of being an atheist you can claim intellectual superiority. Yes, it is just that simple.
By being an atheist you can make yourself smarter (or at least smarter than those religious nuts who claim to be virtuous just because they are religious). But don’t take my word for it—read a few comment threads on Digg or Facebook, and the subject of God and atheism will inevitably come up, and as anyone with half a brain can notice, every single atheist is mentally superior to every other person of faith (who is in turn morally superior). They say so themselves. And if their word is not enough, why just look at their eloquently written references to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and other philosophical weapons that they so deftly deploy.
So if you want to be smart, become an atheist. Also, it’s a very good weapon for guarding against anyone who tries to point out that you have no other intellectually redeeming qualities.
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I wouldn’t say smarter. More rational, less prone to whimsy and silly supernaturalism, for sure. But smarter, not so much.
Thank you for proving the point of this article
Oh my goodness. You realize this is sarcasm, right? He’s not actually saying atheists are smarter.
if you really want to get into that, I am one of the few that can disprove atheism as whimsical
haha I’m glad that I’m not the only one who notices such things.
“I don’t believe in God so I own you,” gets really old. But I mean won’t the religious people get the last laugh so to speak?
Personally I would much rather go to heaven or paradise whatever one believes as opposed to just rotting in the ground when I die.
well if you were rotting in the ground dead you wouldn’t know it so there isn’t really a comparison there
Just because you want it to be true doesn’t mean that it is true.
I think your missing the whole point of religion vs intelectualism. Its not about “choosing” whats right. The mere act of believing in one of the 2 groups doesnt make it right. Were you to start believing in santa he wouldnt magically appear until youd done a considerable ammount of hemp.
Too bad if you like the idea of flying away on Baby Jesus’ magical carpet to a safe place in the sky – you too will be fodder for insects and fire.
Make no mistake – go rob a few graves if you need evidence of many the Lords’ “sheep” simply rotting away in the earth…
Why must one assume that religious people can’t be intellectual? Sure, there are people who just believe because that is what their parents taught them, but many other people have done research and asked questions, and they have come to an intelligent conclusion that what they believe is true. Religion does not automatically equal stupidity.
Well if you actually knew what the purpose of the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory was, maybe you’d have a valid argument. But there, you just proved why non-atheists ARE dumb. Good job! How paradoxical of you.
What’s the difference between declaring piety for a flying spaghetti monster and an invisible man in the sky? Sure, you’d ridicule someone who believed in levitating pasta, but why can’t I ridicule someone who believes in a whimsical guy who recruits people to Neverland? Sounds just as stupid to me. God is no more probable, and is definitely a weaker argument. At least we know spaghetti and flying exist. The Flying Spaghetti Monster theory is used by atheists to show the religious community how inane their own theory is!
Read the post again, and pay attention this time. :)
You are only helping to prove the point. I am an atheist, and while I do consider myself rather smart, these two things are not related. Just because someone has faith doesn’t “logically” make them stupid. The two concepts are entirely separate traits, as are virtuosity or morality and a belief in a higher being. I know plenty of stupid atheists and plenty of highly religious people that are some of the smartest people I know.
To be honest Steve, you are right about both spaghetti and flying to exist.
However, both whimsy and Neverland exist, in some way. I think what you are trying to say is that Michael Jackson was the God you were banking on and now that he’s been dead for more than three days you’ve given up altogether.
All my bets are on Orthodox Judism, baby. In other words, I’m all in with a pair of sixes.
This is perfect. And every atheist who has responded has MISSED THE POINT.
LIGHTEN UP, PEOPLE!!
“This is perfect. And every atheist who has responded has MISSED THE POINT. ”
So if an Atheist responds -at all-, they suddenly become smarter-than-thou and intellectually superior?
This seems to be the rhetoric here:
“Atheists think they’re so much smarter than believers, its disgusting.”
“I’m an atheist and I don’t think we’re smarter, I just believe my personal viewpoint makes more sense to me.”
“OH MY GOD HAHA YOU JUST PROVED MY POINT. DAMN GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE HAHA RETARDED ATHEIST!!!!!”
Skepticism doesn’t preclude stupidity, unfortunately.
um – it’s the other way around. You’re confusing cause and effect. If one is intelligent, one is more likely to follow the course of rationality and be an atheist.
So in your crude wording – if you’re smart, you’re more likely to be an atheist. If you’re dumb, you’ll swallow the lies of religion. Unfortunately some smart people get fooled as well.
This is quite exactly the way it works. Its no coincidense that poorly educated people flock to supernatural beliefs while those who have been properly versed can see religion for the control matrix it is.
Please educate yourself before arguing. Thank you.
And Caitlin, that is called Pascal’s wager. And no, it is not a win-win situation; that is so ignorant of you! You think your best bet is believing, but what if you’re wrong, and your ‘God’ is not the right one? What if you are a Christian who assumes she must believe in God, but it turns out that Allah was the real God all along? Well, it looks like you’re fucked. You just lost your gamble.
Just a clarification…this really annoys the crap out of me. ‘Allah’ is just the Arabic word for God–it’s not a different God.
You’re right that if she’s chosen the wrong god she loses here wager anyways, but the essence of her argument is still very much right. After all, if she goes the path of atheism and some form of god (and subsequent heaven and hell) does exist, she’s screwed. And of all the theorized gods, she can really only worship one (religious pluralism is something that almost every religion specifically precludes), so she’s still taking a pretty big wager no matter what. But if it turns out there is a heaven, and worship of the appropriate god gets her in, she still does better than an atheist who denies the existence of that god.
Now all that aside, I think most religious scholars would tell you that this argument (Pascal’s Wager) is not a very strong testament of your faith, and not in spirit with most major religions. The point of Christianity isn’t to avoid death (or hell), but to acknowledge one’s wrong-doings (Of course, there is a LOT more to Christian theology than that).
in theory Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the same God…
To those who believe that Allah and the Christian God are the same; you are misinformed. The Christian God is a triune God (God the Father, Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ) They are the Trinity. They are three persons in one. It actually is much deeper than this but I don’t have the time to go into depth. The Muslim God (Allah) is not. The Muslim faith only see Jesus Christ as a great man “prophet” the do not recognize him as one of the God-head. So, they are NOT the same God.
so it’s 1/3 of the muslim & jewish god?
The smartest are the ones who know they can’t decide either way. In the respect that no one knows for certain whether there is or isn’t a god, Atheism is as limited as any type of religion…
You sir, are the only so far in this thread, or any other thread ive read on the subject that actually gets it… was begininng to wonder if i was the only one.
Not really … sure its POSSIBLE that there is a god, but it is rather more likely that there is not. There could be fairies at the bottom of the ocean, but we cannot prove it either way. Does that mean we should be agnostic in terms of fairies, too? And to the invisible monkey flying over my head?
Thank you Anne. It’s nice to see that there are other intelligent people out there who have not been brainwashed by fanciful things like religion, which, of course, is a primitive concept that early man used for security.
Mr Steve, you are a classic example of what the user is talking about. Atheism is not more valid or ‘smart’ than any other belief – your experiences and point of view are not logical. To disbelieve something just because you haven’t seen it with your own eyes is no more logical than believing something just because you’ve been told it. What seems preposterous to you may not seem preposterous to others. To assume that your view is the most intelligence is gross arrogance at best and dangerous delusion at worst. The only TRULY rational view is that of admitting uncertainty. Anything else is a leap of faith. Even now, you behave as a zealot unbwilling to listen to others’ or be dissuaded from his point of view despite evidence to the contrary. As a reminder, Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein, and Darwin were all Christians.
Einstein. Was. Not. A. Christian. He wasn’t even a theist. And if he WERE to have a religion, it would most likely have been Jewish, since he was a Jew. His quotes contain the word ‘God’, but as a proper name for the Cosmos and its mysteries and laws. He stated multiple times that he was an atheist. Those are just simple facts, and I have no idea why people keep dropping his name when talking about intellectual believers.
Same thing with Darwin. Definitely not a Christian. He thought that the suffering of the world proved that a personal, merciful Christian God could not exist. He called himself agnostic and didn’t think evolutionism was in any way compatible with traditional theism. Once again, FACTS. Stop throwing names of historical figures around to prove your point.
Disregard my using the word ‘atheist’ to describe Einstein. He actually claimed to be agnostic.
Actually, Darwin was an anglican who considered himself agnostic after 1851.
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html#sfb8rkk06riH
enough said
the site listed albert einstein as one who believed in god. this is of course complete bullshit. albert einstein has long been proved to use the word “God” poetically rather than literally. he didn’t mean a specifc god , rather the mysteries that are yet to be solved.
Wow, I hate that site. I don’t know for sure about all of those scientists, but Einstein believed in God as much as he believed in the Cosmos. That is, Einsteins “God” was a very impersonal, cosmic force consisting of physical laws. He just used the word God to simplify his viewpoint, and I think at one point he even acknowledged how confusing his wording was to religious onlookers. He stated openly that he was an atheist, multiple times.
And since they screwed Einstein up, they probably skewed the truth about a lot of the scientists on the list. Not a very reliable site whatsoever.
lol. No scientistist since 1955?
As an ex-Christian minister, I would not agree that being an atheist makes one smarter. However, I will concede that Atheists are easier to talk to regarding spiritual topics, and they also provide very reasonable feedback without taking the “moral superiority” road.