
Originally Posted by
verzen
I know that because most southern religious folk arn't very intelligent,
Nice to know the entire religious world is being judged by the actions of the Southern religious community (a relatively tiny fraction of the world's religious population...but that doesn't seem to matter).

Originally Posted by
verzen
...thus lowering the average intelligence of religious people.
By how much? This lowering of the average you speak of seems to be a pivotal part of your rebuttal here, so I'm sure you have some factual numbers on this, right? Or are you just making assumptions off of CNN news-mongering and Southern religious folks (a group notorious for their fair share of "odd" factions)?
If we assume the current world population is 7-billion, then even if the
entire United States (roughly 300-million) was comprised of religious zealots, they would make up for something like 4% of the world's population. I'm not sure how that drastically impacts anything, even if it were true.
Again, if we take "religious community" as meaning only Christians, and the current estimate for the number of Christians in the world is somewhere around 2.1-billion, and we again assume that the
entire US is comprised of 300-million religious zealots, that's still only 15% impact. Hardly tipping the scales here.
I'm assuming that since this highly-conclusive evidence is probably concerning the Southern Baptists (since they are one of the largest church organizations in the US) their total population of followers is estimated at less than 10% of the US population. So now we're talking about a roughly
1.42% impact on the world Christian community...and we haven't even gotten to all the other religious folks out there in the world...

Originally Posted by
verzen
Have you ever met a generally stupid athiest? I havn't.
Then you haven't looked. They're all over the place, and are very easy to identify. You simply listen, and they will make themselves known. Some key clues are "God doesn't exist because I can't touch him," and "God doesn't exist because he doesn't appear when I say 'show up!'" or "the existence of stupid people proves the non-existence of god," or "all religious people are nutcases, because this one guy over here did something stupid..." or "only religious people do stupid things..." or "all religious people think and believe the same, therefore can be treated universally" and so on...

Originally Posted by
verzen
They are usually intelligent.. and most often look like mac user's on the mac vs PC commercial.. =P
A wonderful example of intelligence (...or was that intelligence insulted?).