Comment by booklover on January 18, 2012 at 8:09am

I know what you mean.  I never finished college (not that that has anything to do with intelligence I guess) but I hear these really 'smart' people talk about their faith, and I think WHAT? how can someone so smart (which is not the same as being intelligent I guess) be SO DUMB.

Comment by matthew greenberg on January 18, 2012 at 1:09pm

honestly Dave, it's hard not to feel 'superior' to the religious, since we know what they believe is beyond silly, and yet they believe it so deeply.  it's important to remember that for many, if not most, it isn't their fault.  for most, it's a given that they are X religion, and a good many don't even give it much thought.  my mother, for example, is religious, yet i know for a fact that she's never read the Bible, and couldn't even name the 10 Commandments.  the only ones that we should truly feel 'better' than are the fundamentalists, who have taken the absurdities that they believe to another level. 

Comment by roland707 on January 19, 2012 at 11:25pm

Maybe you're really just feeling more grown-up than them, because they still worry there's a monster under their bed. 

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 19, 2012 at 11:31pm

Sometimes I see people who are far far brighter then I, clinging to their religion, and it feels to me as if they have some surreal hole in their heads.

Comment by Tim Donk on January 20, 2012 at 6:00am

I go "full on" every chance I get, sometimes soliciting shocked looks or apologetic  backpedaling.  I do not attack someone for expressing a personal belief, but if someone wants to sound off about how others should behave in light of their religious dogma, I will fully and ruthlessly engage.  I guess I want religious thugs to have to look over their shoulder before spouting off, like a racist pig about to tell  a N***er joke.  At the end of the day I don't care what someone else believes, fashion a god from your own fecal matter and bow down to it 5 times a day, but don't expect me to follow suit.

Comment by Neil Hogg on January 22, 2012 at 4:41am

I would focus on you as a person first and a atheist second,being an atheist does not make you become clever or better than anyone of faith.

Comment by Neil Hogg on January 22, 2012 at 4:41am

I would focus on you as a person first and a atheist second,being an atheist does not make you become clever or better than anyone of faith.

Comment by Sandi on January 22, 2012 at 7:30am

Next time you are asked what your religious beliefs are, list them all. I think there are quite a lot but you could probably get away the at least the ten most popular.

ie:

Catholic

Baptist

Protestant

Anglican

Atheist

Muslim

Buddhist

Scientologist

Mormon

Latter Day Saints.

Or my favrorite: Nunya. (nunya business)

Comment by Stuart M Rees on February 5, 2012 at 10:40am

@Neil Hogg: I'm not saying I am smarter then them, just that when the topic of god/religion comes up, I feel like I'm trying to look smarter, which makes me feel arrogant. The point is I don't like talking down to people, no matter who is smarter or what they believe.

Comment by Steph S. on April 28, 2012 at 9:30pm

Yeah I feel different too...Atheism is just one of the things that make me different however.

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