• sweaterpuppys@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Actually, if religious wackos disappeared, IQs would plummet because IQ scores are based off a bell curve and a large portion of the low end of the bell curve would disappear, shifting the average which would lower most people’s IQ.

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzdeleted by creator
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Violence would also go down. The Venn diagram of religious whackos and anti-maskers is nearly a circle, and during COVID lockdowns at least here in Finland there was a lot less disorderly conduct in eg. bars when they required proof of vaccination – all the conservative nutballs stayed at home and didn’t start beating people up (well, not in bars anyhow. Spousal abuse went way up…)

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      I am just as much against organized religion as the next atheist … but if all world religions were eliminated tomorrow … people would find another group mentality to divide themselves

      I’m a blue atheist and you’re a green atheist … or whatever … you’re a New York 20th Century atheist, I’m a 21st Century San Francisco Atheist

      Religion would only be the first divide we would have to cross before we figured out how to live with one another on a global scale