A recent study indicates that Americans with lower cognitive ability scores tend to be more likely to embrace Christian nationalism. The findings suggest the ideology’s appeal is linked to underlying cognitive resources rather than just educational differences.
The people who believe in imaginary beings aren’t smart?
Sarcasm aside it’s depressing that this single bar is already too high for most, but I leave room for belief without evidence in general being a gradient of dumb. A Nationalist Christian is markedly dumber than your average theist or whatever incoherent vaguely spiritualist humans.
You’re not doing your point any favors with that reading comprehension. The link is only about Christian nationalism, not Christianity or even religion as a whole. “Fascists aren’t smart” is a far more plausible explanation here.
exceptions are definitely there, jesuits and catholic scientists have contributed to physics/astrophysics and other stems quite alot.
If you think plenty of smart people don’t also believe many stupidly wrong things based on no evidence…
Being a Christian Nationalist goes far beyond holding a mere belief. Even if whatever point you’re trying to make is true, do you really think that “smart people who are not Christian Nationalists” have no distinguishable difference from “Christian Nationalists”?
(I’d hazard it’s hardly based on evidence, or epistemology if that’s what you’re going for.)