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Originally Posted by Furious_Female
Intelligence is something you are born with and knowledge is something you acquire. The human memory capacity stops growing by age 13. The human brain isn't fully developed until age 25. And belief isn't fact. If someone believes pineapple Lifesavers taste better than lime ones, there are no facts to prove or disprove this belief, nor does intelligence have anything to do with it.
I am not religious, in fact I am anti organized religion. Personally, I believe most religions are used to brainwash, misguide, and control people. However, only an ignorant and uneducated person would claim that there is no God, higher being, aliens and/or anything of the sort. Science cannot prove there isn't a supreme being and people of faith can't prove that there is.
I agree that there are a lot of severely misinformed, naive people in the US and all over the world, but the same can be said about atheists or the human race in general.
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I would hardly put atheists in the 'ignorant' group. Not believing in something because there is absolutely no evidence of it is not analagous to believing in something because there is no evidence for it, but you feel it to be true.