Who are more intelligent christians or athiests?

Question

I dont mean to be rude but I think perhaps the athiests are even more intelligent than the christians. This is hard for me to say cause i'm a christian and it galls me to say it but perhaps its true?

Answer 1

Oh, there are stupid atheists, believe me. But I don't think you can generalize one way or the other.

Answer 2

Amusing question! How about this. What is faster, experience or thought?

Update a few hours later:

I suppose I should expand this thought since it doesn't seem as if anyone caught the drift so to speak. The only way to prove intelligence is to have a set guide of non-changeable criteria in which we would be able to have conclusive evaluation. Since there is absolutely no way we could possibly provide such criteria, we can never achieve an accurate answer.
Therefore, the responses fall into a swell of personal opinion expressed with the influence of what ever said individual deems to be truth.
In a Buddhist sense, my first statement was an attempt to provoke a bit of thought as to the relevance of the asked question. Without thought, there is no experience. Likewise without experience there can be no thought. Thus, the speed of thought verses the speed of experience would be identical in proportion being that without one, you can't have the other. So both are necessary components of each other.
In closing, the intelligence of an atheist verses a Christian can have no definite conclusion. Being that the thought of one side is dependent on it's personal experience. Since thought and experience are dependent on each other, we are left with the secular individual as opposed to a mass of individuals on either side of the argument. So who is more intelligent? It depends on who you had the pleasure of talking with! There are too many variables to come to a logical conclusion. Experience is thought and thought is experience. The only way to understand each other is to be compassionate and respectful of one another's views and belief's. - jcr

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." - Buddha

Answer 3

Speaking as an atheist, there is no difference.

There are intelligent atheists and there are intelligent Christians.

There are also stupid, pig-headed, close-minded, bigoted atheists, just as there are less than brilliant Christians.

Although I suspect that there is probably a statistical difference in the amount of education the 'average' atheist has compared to the 'average' Christian, this absolutely, in no way, means that the more educated bunch is 'smarter'.

Answer 4

I think that anyone that has to put down someone else's intelligence over believeing or not believing is displaying thier own lacks....whether it is a lack of intelligence, confidence, or self esteem....There are plenty of highly intelligent and not so intelligent people on all sides of it.... With respect to whether there is a measurable statistical difference, I would want to know if the people doing the "study" did an accurate cross section of society, or did they aim thier study at a particular segment or segments, how did that skew thier observations, and whether they did so in an objective and accurate manner...Also the point of view of the person doing the study, if he or she already started out with the notion that Athiests are more intelligent, then it would be thier job to prove that theory. Likewise, someone setting out to prove the opposite would also find a way to do so. I looked over that list of studies, almost all of them were done on college campuses, and there is no mention of how the studies were conducted, only the findings. For all I know, they asked a bunch of overworked college students questions like whether they go to church, or whether they pray at night, and the students were too busy trying to stay above water in thier studies to do things like that, after an all night cramming session for exams the next day, and the ones with the higher test scores spent the time on studying instead of going to church. Also during young adulthood, agnosticism and questioning in general is common, and not necessarily where they wind up as they mature.
What saddens me, Knight, is that someone got in there, and planted seeds of doubt, that in some corner of your being, you should feel doubtful about who you are over what is really one person's opinion, based on thier own limited, and all too human, point of view...

Answer 5

Atheists are smarter by default, but that does not mean you cannot encounter stupid atheists and intelligent Christians. Did I just say intelligent Christians? lol A person can have a ton of knowledge and be very wise in many ways but still choose to be ignorant when it comes to their precious Christianity.

I guess it might be more important to consider the level of intelligence on a certain subject rather than simply looking at intelligence in general.

Answer 6

Check It - First off, it would have to be Atheists vs. people of any faith, which is my point. Most religons don't require proof of anything, they are Faith-based. It's more of a question of spirituality. Is someone more intelligent because they don't believe? Perhaps some that believe have experienced miracles - events that the most intelligent minds cannot explain; The difference between intelligence and wisdom. Anyways, I ask those who believe themselves to be intelligent to take the time to consider this route of analytical thought:

How can we as human beings, who barely know anything about ourselves, this world, or this universe, truly say we are intelligent enough to define a God. The concept of a God is a tough one to grasp. One of the most brilliant minds in human history spent most of his life making some of the most important discoveries, and revolutionalized Science as we know it. The man was on a quest to, in his own words, decipher the mind of God. That man was Albert Einstein.
So to answer your question, I'd say compared to what there is to know we don't know squat, and to kill eachother over religeous beliefs is just idiotic. Atheists and Theists.....we all got a lot to learn.

Answer 7

non secular conception isn't a demonstration of intelligence. God calls us yet purely some answer the decision. i have self belief it has extra to do with your rearing. in case you come back from a family contributors finished of God's love, the position miracles are time-honored, you've an additional accessible time accepting the reality. in case you come back up in a Godless homestead, the position cynicism and disbelief are basic, then it would stand to reason that atheism would result without outside interference. those are not any more absolutes. i have self belief that honestly everyone who examines the info without bias is conscious that that is a designed universe. yet they do no longer recognize what to do with that information. in the journey that they honestly persevered on the path to reality it would bring about self turning out to be a lot less significant and the deity assuming that position. it would also require moral alignment it really is uncomfortable. it really is the reason we may be able to examine horoscopes and tarot playing cards without social backlash; they require no moral substitute.

Answer 8

I'm know that I'm more intelligent than some Christians that I have met.

And in the future, do yourself a favor and use spell check before asking a questions regarding intelligence. It's atheist, not athiest

Answer 9

The Bible holds the answer.

Blessed are they who have not seen and yet believed.

The fool has said IN HIS HEART that there is no God.

Worldly intellect cannot grasp truth that childlike faith can. Here is truth simple and yet profound - "Jesus loves me this I know - for the Bible tells me so." So simple a child can grasp
it but so profound because it doesn't make sense that a Holy God would sacrifice His Son for undeserving sinners like all of us.

I personally think that those who receive the blessing are far wiser than those whose intellect blinds them to truth that robs them of receiving the greatest blessing ever offered.

Answer 10

It sounds as though you have had an unpleasant experience
with a christian or an atheist, perhaps both....the question, however; should remain with the answer you received as no person has received any more knowledge than what they themselves have studied and learned through out the years

Answer 11

I think atheists take science more seriously that *some* christians...but I would not say that atheists are any more intelligent than christians in general...and I'm an atheist....