Atheism

His stuff is actually pretty good. Well-sourced, concise. But yes clickbaity.

Anyway I don't blame you, video is slow compared to reading. Here's the transcript

Why religious people are less intelligent. There's a psychological reason for that. In 2013, psychologist Myron Zuckerman at the University of  
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Rochester ran one of the largest studies ever conducted on the relationship between intelligence and religious belief. He analyzed decades of research  
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across multiple countries. And what he found is wild. Religious people scored lower on tests that measured their intelligence than non-religious people.  
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Zuckerman updated the analysis in 2020.  
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83 studies spanning over 90 years of research. all pointing in the same direction. Religious people are less intelligent. The evidence is concrete.  
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So now the question is why? Zuckerman identified three reasons religious people are less intelligent. The first reason is conformity. Religion requires you to accept a fixed set of beliefs.  
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Smart people push back on that. Smart people don't accept because I said so as an answer. Religion has God saying because I said so a lot. Religious  
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people are trained from birth to obey authority without asking questions. Smart people ask a lot of questions.  
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Authoritarian people don't like questions. Religious people grow up and obey Trump without asking questions.  
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Same muscle, same obedience, different costume. The second reason is analytical thinking. Religion runs on gut feeling,  
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intuition, and blind faith. No proof, no facts, just believe. Just believe stories from 2,000 years ago. Analytical  
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thinking directly undermines religious beliefs. We want proof. We want evidence. We like facts. We like  
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repeatable tests. Religion does not give you any of that. Zuckerman found that the more you think analytically, the less likely you are to believe in  
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something that cannot be tested. That is why the least educated counties in America are the most religious and the most Republican. Go figure. The third  
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reason is everything religion gives you, being smart also gives you. Religion helps you cope with the fear of death.  
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Intelligence reduces the fear on its own. Religion tells you how to behave and gives you a set of rules to follow from a 2,000-year-old book you have to  
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follow or else. Someone who is smart has their own moral compass, their own sense of right and wrong. You don't need to borrow your morals from a book when  
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you're smart, empathetic, and have your own internal moral compass. Religion makes you feel worthy and significant.  
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When you're smart, you don't need an invisible friend for grown-ups to feel significant. Your accomplishments help you do that. For people with lower intelligence, religion fills a hole. For  
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people with higher intelligence, the hole was never there. Religion is not a belief system for smart people. Religion is a coping mechanism for people who are not smart enough to cope on their own.  
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The data on this is not even close. The less intelligent you are, the more likely you are to be religious. The more religious you are, the more likely you  
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are to follow a man who lies to you every single day, and you call it faith.  
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Stupid people need to be told what to think. And religion has been training them to be obedient their entire lives.