I’m an atheist, but, like most atheists prefer to refer to myself as “not religious” because O’Hair, Dawkins, Harris and other high church atheists have made the term synonymous with being jerks and because we have no interest in the argument. The arrogance of the high church atheist is embarrassing and irksome to those of us who modestly refer to ourselves as “not religious.”
griefer said more than once that atheists tend to have higher IQ’s.
But the fact of the matter is that the university educated, nebbish, asocial people who call themselves atheists are not the only nonbelievers out there, and they are hardly the most numerous.
Self described atheists of the high church type make up less than one half percent of the population. Nonbelievers run on the order of 20% in the US and higher than that in Europe. Nonbelievers, moreover, tend to have somewhat lower IQ’s, tend to be more likely to end up in prison, tend to be more obese, less educated, somewhat more prone to violence, child abuse, drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking, and are more likely to be avid fans of professonal wrestling and American football.
Get the picture? When one examines the facts then the idea that nonbelief is indicative of inherent superiority in any sense is revealed to be absurd. Calling oneself an “atheist” simply means that one is a nonbeliever who has had the good fortune and intelligence to attain higher education, perhaps in spite of the inherent liabilities that attach to nonbelief than because of inherent strengths.
