It depends on how you measure intelligence I thin. If you're measuring IQ, the average atheist will probably score higher. Becoming an atheist requires more thought. If you're measuring EQ, the average Christian will probably score higher.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ZqQznblZo

Come to the light side, we have hot twenty-four year old girls.

Thats the power of logic.

Thats your interpretation of logic piggy.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities - Voltaire

Thinking for yourself eh? ^^ Well, I know i suck, but stop thinking for me in 3v3 Europe! Let me start in Spain/Port.

Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing spots on a map than you do in choosing a god?

No, its my sarcastic interpretation of your vapid advert.

About half the shots of people were young, beautiful smiling female models. That isnt an accident. Whoever made the ad is trying to manipulate viewers using hot girls, not the logic that they laud at the end. There was no appeal to logic at all.

Myhand smells bad - Richard Dawkins

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Seneca the Younger

Try proving that using mathematical induction

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof - Christopher Hitchens

If you quote Einstein,
also quote him with that:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

Myhand, i never implied otherwise

Do you really think that Christians don't think for themselves, but this mysterious deity known as God thinks for them? Well, if that's the case, all Christians should think alike, then why are so many Christian denominations at war with each other? Ex. Catholics and Anglicans.

I agree with you on one point, that the rulers think of religion as useful. This can be seen throughout history. However, those rulers twist religion into a tool they use to control their people. Christianity today, (along with many other religions) have undergone such "twist". For example, a king may use and I quote "[restriction] by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death" as an excuse to carry out his will, using religion as aid. That does not mean the religion originally has this "restriction," but merely because the king (or ruler) distorted this religion into this. Thus, as age progress, the believers are transformed of believing in such "restriction." And in the eyes of others, they appear brainwashed by the religion, which I agree they are.

I think if you are religious merely in fear of hell, or for the rewards in heaven, then I agree that they are indeed very poor.

Do you really think that Christians don't think for themselves, but this mysterious deity known as God thinks for them? Well, if that's the case, all Christians should think alike, then why are so many Christian denominations at war with each other? Ex. Catholics and Anglicans.

The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. - Ed Krebs

I agree with you on one point, that the rulers think of religion as useful. This can be seen throughout history. However, those rulers twist religion into a tool they use to control their people. Christianity today, (along with many other religions) have undergone such "twist". For example, a king may use and I quote "[restriction] by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death" as an excuse to carry out his will, using religion as aid. That does not mean the religion originally has this "restriction," but merely because the king (or ruler) distorted this religion into this. Thus, as age progress, the believers are transformed of believing in such "restriction." And in the eyes of others, they appear brainwashed by the religion, which I agree they are.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

I think if you are religious merely in fear of hell, or for the rewards in heaven, then I agree that they are indeed very poor.

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our tememple. The philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama

It seems that Hitchens, Krebs, Diderot, and Nietzsche all speak for myhand. And Einstein and the Dalai La are merely tools of tagg! - Qi

If atheists are so wise, rational and logical, then why hasn't one come forth to provide a wise, rational, and logical argument for the non-existence of any god? - Qi

If the beliefs of theists are correct, why hasn't one come forth to prove the starting point of their religion -- a god exists? - Qi

Qi, what do you believe then?