Too many non religious people are so blinded by their own hatred to take seriously.
Such studies merely measure the degree of modernization and not intelligence.
These types of studies don’t square with other studies that show religious people are also more educated.
If I came up with a study that said people with pink or chocolate skin color were less intelligent I would be considered a racist.
The sociologist C. Wright Mills once wrote that groups exercise social control by linguistic devices, imputing good or bad motives or lack of intelligence to those groups they wish to cognitively dominate. If my group of atheists are deemed more intelligent then we can dominate the university and can banish those who are religious. If my in-group of atheists are more intelligent then we should formulate all social policies to control the masses of backward people. Atheists are more intelligent all right: they want everyone to believe they are more intelligent so they can be their masters. I’m sorry to say many libertarians fall into the same sort of thinking in my experience.
Atheism is another “genius word” for liberals, because there is no such thing as Atheism but narcissistic hate of a Being better than them technically and politically.
They have a fascist cop mentality of making a nice spectacle of themselves arresting another one making a bad or poor spectacle of himself. In their eyes of evil Nazi cop, Trayvon should have won the fight. It is not about justice, it is about fake TV wrestling, politics and preferences on the field for them.
A Christian will use humor and make fun of himself, a liberals will go candid camera, look for a victim to make fun of, go John Stewart and cover themselves with “authority” “experimental” self credit. All these shows on TV and celebrities snarl. They are not funny. Their humor is self serving and exploitative of children, they are disgusting.
If devil enters my heart, I focus on the face of an idiot liberal who made nothing and none of it, playing Vegas smart a$$. That detestable image is all we need. Obama is very useful in that groupie dunce mentality.