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Nope.
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Not at all.
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The fanatics not the religious people are the problem.
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No these stupid liberal-left wing shits are the most retarted who think the world created from some kind of explosion.
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Being religious is not necessarily a problem depending of what(and how) you follow/believe, being a fanatic and extremist who tries to impose his/her views, is.
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Intelligence and religion have nothing to do with each other.
You can't choose your level of intelligence but you can choose what you believe. Changing your beliefs does not alter the level of intelligence which is there already.
Intelligence might determine how you interact with your beliefs, however.
For example, average low-IQ Joe is happy to believe that the world was made in seven days. He accepts this as gospel truth because authorities (parents, school, church) have told him so. He doesn't question this any further. If you ask him about it, all he can do is recite what he has been told by others and if you probe deeper you will find that he actually has no insight into why he believes what he does. He just does.
The more intelligent are likely to ask, "What do I believe? Why do I believe the earth was created in seven days? What supporting information is there in order to corroborate my beliefs?" They seek to deepen their understanding. They can grasp and understand alternatives, grapple with what they are presented with, compare and contrast and come to their own conclusions.
So we see that intelligence can affect how we deal with and process our beliefs. These beliefs don't need to be religious. They can be anything. Do we believe in gravity because we told about Isaac Newton in high school? Or have we tested the theory for ourselves, thrown an apple out of the window or looked at whether a brick fall faster than a marble?
But we have a choice what we believe. Truth isn't absolute. My truth might be completely different to the next person's, but they are true for each of us who experience our own truth. By "truth" I don't mean the Bible/Koran is truth. By "truth" I mean the experiences in our lives that have shaped who we are today. I might have colour vision and the next person might be colour blind. We see the same things, but our "truths" are different because we physically perceive the world differently. It doesn't make my world any better or worse than his, just different.
To summarise: Intelligence affects the way we interact with the world/concepts/ideas of which religion is one. There are multiple truths and all should be acceptable.
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More like a fearful + emptiness combo.
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