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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Liberalism and Atheism -- or at least irreligiosity -- are practically de rigeur for the educated today in the West. It's not some ridiculous thing where more intelligent people actually agree with Liberalism BECAUSE they're smarter. They're required to agree with it because the institutions they are educated in, respect and who have authority over their lives share that same worldview. It's not rocket science -- ha ha!

If people like me were in charge then it would definitely be the case that high IQ correlated with Fascism. It's all a matter of fashion.

With regards to Atheism I'd probably agree that it's the case that simple people -- and I don't mean that as a slight -- may have more of a tendency to find comfort in a simplistic type of religiosity. That's fair. However most of the Atheists I've encountered are absolute midwit morons with half baked, ill considered ideas and I've never heard an Atheist argue with as much rigour and intellectual depth for their non-belief as I have people like Jay Dyer or E. Michael Jones.

All that being said I don't care if the 'smart set' agree with me or not I believe in my ideas and I can't be swayed by group patterns. When in the past when nearly every single educated person was illiberal in one way or another and agreed much more with me then I'm sure you'd have found the same results. Something like 'Study find people who believe in God, dislike Jews and believe in traditional values have higher IQ's.'. So? What of it? Does that make them right or the people who opposed their worldview essentially wrong?

[–]AidsVictim69 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

With regards to Atheism I'd probably agree that it's the case that simple people -- and I don't mean that as a slight -- may have more of a tendency to find comfort in a simplistic type of religiosity. That's fair. However most of the Atheists I've encountered are absolute midwit morons with half baked, ill considered ideas and I've never heard an Atheist argue with as much rigour and intellectual depth for their non-belief as I have people like Jay Dyer or E. Michael Jones.

I agree. I've been an atheist most of my life but 90% of them are absolutely repulsive people overestimating their intellect.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I don't necessarily think they couldn't come up with a good defense of Atheism -- I'm Catholic but I have heard them -- it's more an attitude thing.