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Really, are you also more likely to be athiest as well?

Because I mean Donald Knuth is pretty darn bright and a devout Lutheran. And when we say evidence and science are we talking about the evidence and science that guided our pandemic response?

If reality has such a hard left bent to it why do so many communist nations end up massacring their people through famine when trying to implement their ideal utopian leftist solutions?

But please go on telling me how your people are so much smarter and more intelligent than the other group of people you don't like.

Actually I'm convinced we need to do something about these dangerous conservatives, their dangerous racist, deadly views are killing children and limiting women's rights. We need to do something to stop them and help them understand reality as it really is, they just need more education. Clearly however the current model isn't working maybe if we setup special camps for them to all go to so they can be really educated, re-educated for short.

Of course there will still be people that will resist, we'll need some sort of final solution for them....




> Really, are you also more likely to be athiest as well?

Surprisingly, this has been studied -- here a broad introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#S...

> why do so many communist nations end up massacring their people

I always assumed it was because Communism/Leninism/Maoism countries as implemented were authoritarian rather than democratic and encouraged "Animal Farm" type power distributions. Adoption of communism probably doesn't make people smarter, causally. But rejection of evidence-based worldviews can certainly have consequential results for individuals and communities.




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