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Religion’s Smart-People Problem
Should you believe in a God? Not according to most academic philosophers. A comprehensive survey revealed that only about 14% of English-speaking professional philosophers are theists. As for what little religious belief remains among their colleagues, most professional philosophers regard it as a strange aberration among otherwise intelligent people. Among scientists the situation is much the same.
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There is also the atheist stupid-people problem: if we remove religion from the equation, nobody would be religious but the vast majority of people would still be too stupid to resist believing in any of the stupid things from the vast set of stupid things that can be believed
case in point: anti-vaxxers
Can’t really blame religion for that one