Why do you think smart people from other countries are less religious?

[jennifer_bloom]

I am thinking there are multiple possibilities:

One, is that they are just as committed to religious values as religious people, but they use the word “conscience” or “dignity” to define those values instead of the word “bible” or “temple.”

Another could be they have a stronger sense of pride and every day citizen avoidance because they have better skills and abilities. Meaning, their social status makes them more discriminatorily exclusionary and behaviourally prideful which competes with natural religious sentiments.

A third possibility is they do less emotional reflection and psychological warfare because the gap between their goals and their abilities is smaller. This lack of expressive personal need, might weaken their religious drive.

[purplepoppy]

Religion has nothing to do with intelligence. It's more about fitting in with your local community and having a sense of belonging to something. People might get that through church or going to their local golf club. I would suggest the less opportunity for other group activities the more likely people will go to church.

[DonaldDarko]

It's probably something like that. People we think of as intelligent, tech people, engineers, scientists can't tell you what a woman is. I don't think it's a matter of being dumb, it's a matter of being crazy.

[SmokinAces2000]

Yes.