More religious = Less intellect?

Question

Anyone ever notice that the stupider the person is the more religious they are? Of course that doesn't apply to everyone, but its undoubtably true for the most part. Einstein, hawkings, etc....you can go on and on with the geniuses. Can anyone name a religous figure that has had a huge development in mankind? I am sure there must be a few, but I can't think of one.

I mean religious figures who have had an effect in the scientific community. I am sure martin luther king was smart, but compared to einstein or hawking....not so much.

Not saying religious people are stupid, just compare IQ's. Not even close.

Albert Einstein - I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

But anyways, you guys have named a few good ones, but its hard to recognize ones before the 19th century....everyone believed in religion before then.

oh and John, you are a douchebag. Just thought you should know that.
Does it make you feel superior when you brag about your education? I was honestly embarrassed for you while reading your comment.

Ok, I just wanted to thank you all for proving my point. Have a good night everyone, I am sure John will have an EXTRA good one wackin it to his enourmous ego.

Aww, I should have replaced "religious" with "Christian"....Oh well.

Answer 1

Einstein was wrong about the whole faster than light thing. He got the curve wrong which is why lasers have recoil and light has momentum and mass. You could check out other theories if you can read. That takes a masters degree these days.

Hawkins is so totally wrong about his whole "point of creation" theory. How can a grown man be stupid enough to believe a point can actually exist and that the fact that it does not exist proves God does not exist?

Dude, you really need to learn something about the people you use as examples.

Just reading the dumb arguments trying to prove Einstein and Hawkins are right no matter how stupid the theories they come up with are.

Go ahead, read them. Then you can figure out that even though Einstein was wrong, he was still very smart and very religious.

Hawkins, well you had one smart person listed anyway.

Dr. Martin Luther King was a preacher and Mother Theresa was a nun. They couldn't have been very religious, they only lived their lives devoted to God.

I could keep going, but, you would need a masters degree to be literate enough to understand my argument or support your own.

Oh, and lets compare IQ's. Mine is 157, done with a proper IQ test, clinical psychologist with a doctorate. Not some stupid mensa multiple choice joke test.

PS: Wow, what a come back, did you make that up for yourself? IQ has nothing to do with education. Too bad you are not educated or literate enough to know the difference between education and intelligence.

But then again, what can you expect from some one who passes out partying with a bunch of guys and then wakes up missing his pants with a sore anus and does not know why.

Answer 2

C.S. Lewis, Sam Walton, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, William Cowper, Pocahontas, Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Jr, and Sr, H.G Heinz, Martin Luther King Jr, Patrick Henry, Samuel Morse, Isaac Newton, Wright brothers, Galileo Galilei, Dave Thomas, Truett Cathy, Tim Lahaye, Jerry B Jenkins, J.RR. Tolkien, Catherine Marshall, John Ashcroft, Stonewall Jackson, George Washington Carver, Louis Pasteur
My hand is getting tired so I think I will stop, sure makes your list seem pretty pathetic though. I have here business men, founding fathers, presidents, authors, and inventors. If you think that religous figures haven't made a huge development in mankind, then you must not think America is much of a development because about 80% of our founding fathers were religous men, including the first president who was unanimously voted twice into office.

Answer 3

Gandhi
Siddhartha
Jesus
Paul
Confusion
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Merton
Simon Wiesel
Theresa of Avila
Simone Weil
Viktor Frankl
Gustavo Gutierrez
E. Romero
Karl Rahner
James Fowler
John Shea
John Dominic Crossan
St. Augustine
John Paul II
Elizabeth Johnson
Hillel
Erasmus
Descartes
St. Anthony

This is just off the top of my head, and mostly Western cuz I didn't want to check spellings. Have you read any of these guys? Their stuff will blow your mind. No bong necessary. This is intellect and creativity at its finest. You are obviously hanging out with the wrong religious people. Backward, uneducated, uninterested in deeper meaning people are everywhere, whether they are religious or not. Why not hang out with smarter, more engaging individuals, religious or otherwise instead of the low lives you are referring to. The people I am listing aren't the exception, you are just not surrounding yourself with quality.

Answer 4

When you get Born-Again, you can Contact GOD as a Friend.
When you get that Close, GOD can give you Ideas of Witty Inventions.
GOD has given alot of People Ideas.
HE can give these Ideas to any I.Q. Level.
Now, what would be the Smartest Thing to Do about all of this?
Ditto...................

N. Tesla got the Idea for AC Generation and Transformers all at Once, and scribbled it out in the dirt with a stick.
Thats what Powers America right now.

Answer 5

I have to disagree,I believe that most people of higher intellect are less willing to accept that there is a higher power,or more intelligent being.Dr. Martin Luther King, was an example of a person who was God fearing person who impacted society positively.

Answer 6

When people begin to rely on their wisdom, you are right, they do tend to ignore their belief if God, but the truth is that some of the smartest peopl (Jews in particular) believe in God. In fact Jews are on the whole, the smartest race (there is evidence to back this up, and not I am not a Jew, so I have to reason to lie). Proud people do tend to not believe in God. Yet this is even taught in the scriptures, so it proves nothing. You can always find examples of smart athiests, but examples of smart religious people about just as much. Please, do not insult the intelligence of another person based on their beliefs, because they can judge you for much more.

I do not think there is a relation between intelect and faith. God exists, it our attitude as to whether or not we accept that fact, nor our intelligence.

Answer 7

George Washington, many of the early American Presidents, Constantine, Charlemagne, and many others, including Jesus.
And, why are you wagging your fingers at christians, we have contributed more to mankind than athiests, plus, I am the smartest person in my school, and I am very religious. God's more important than education anyways...

Answer 8

I can't think of a single "religious" person that made a huge impact on humanity in a positive way but I can think of many "spiritual" people that did.

Answer 9

Big Bang --- Jesuit Priest (Don't know the name)
Genetics --- Benedicting Monk (Gregor Mendel)

Considering these are considered among the two biggest aspects of modern science... ... ... I'd say learning how to express yourself much more diplomatically is in order.

You are, of course, STATISTICALLY correct, as seen here: http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%20religion.htm

But your way of expressing it, to put it bluntly, farking SUCKED dude.

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John: Who cares what your IQ is? Mine's higher than yours. It's not important either way. So what?

Answer 10

Isaac Newton: Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion

Christopher Columbus: Catholic explorer; led Europe to Americas

Louis Pasteur: Catholic scientist; pasteurization

Galileo Galilei: Catholic astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system

Nicolaus Copernicus: Catholic (priest) astronomer; taught heliocentricity

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Catholic father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist

James Watt: Presbyterian (lapsed) developed steam engine

Michael Faraday: Sandemanian physicist; chemist; discovery of magneto-electricity

James Clerk Maxwell: Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist physicist; electromagnetic spectrum

George Washington: Episcopalian first president of United States

Orville and Wilbur Wright: United Brethren inventors of airplane

Genghis Khan: Mongolian shamanism Mongol conqueror

Adam Smith: Liberal Protestant economist; philosopher; expositor of capitalism; author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Edward de Vere a.k.a. William Shakespeare: Catholic; Anglican literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion

John Dalton: Quaker chemist; physicist; atomic theory; law of partial pressures (Dalton's law)

Napoleon Bonaparte: Catholic (nominal) French conqueror

Thomas Edison: Congregationalist; agnostic inventor of light bulb, phonograph, etc.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Dutch Reformed microscopes; studied microscopic life

Guglielmo Marconi: Catholic and Anglican inventor of radio

Oliver Cromwell Puritan (Protestant) British political and military leader

Alexander Graham Bell: Unitarian/Universalist inventor of telephone

Alexander Fleming: Catholic penicillin; advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy

John Locke: raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian philosopher and liberal theologian

Ludwig van Beethoven: Catholic composer

Werner Heisenberg: Lutheran a founder of quantum mechanics; discovered principle of uncertainty; head of Nazi Germany's nuclear program