Quote from: CoinCube on August 23, 2016, 09:57:20 PM

Quote from: criptix on August 23, 2016, 08:19:35 PM

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The correlation is lower IQ equals to less thinking equals to more superstition and religiosity which I think is very logical.

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More religiosity means less avg. Iq of the population equals to less economic wealth.

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So as long as we hold on to capitalism the end of religion is designed to happen.

The wealthiest societies today were until recently very religions or colonies of said societies. It was not imperial China that kicked off the industrial revolution but the very christian and quite religious Great Britain. A more likely interpretation of the data is that increasing wealth leads to decadence and undermines religiosity. High IQ is associated with success and wealth. Low IQ countries stayed poor and religious.

Superstition and religiosity are distinctly separate entities. While it is true that both are currently correlated with low IQ I have argued that only the former will be associated with low IQ over the long term and provided reasons why this may be the case. I also highlighted religious groups that defy this correlation.

What makes you think we will hold onto capitalism? We lost capitalism some time ago. Freedom requires a solid moral foundation to be maintained. Lose your moral foundation and the rest slowly collapses.

Religion doesn't correlate to lower IQ. Rather, higher IQ correlates to a form of brainwashing. High IQ has to do with materialism by making people think that they are better with higher IQ, and so they should get out and earn more money for a better life. This same thinking doesn't prepare people for the eternal afterlife in which God will pay a whole lot more than people could ever receive in this life.

People of Britain and America were not rewarded with material things because of their high IQ. They were rewarded by God for their proper religiosity. People of China have a higher IQ than Western peoples - search http://www.amren.com/ for this statistical info. Then, Western IQ started to make itself a thing of importance above religion, and that is why we Westerners are a declining group of people in as many ways that we are.

IQ that is focused at materialism rather than God, is destined to fail. Both high IQ and low IQ that are focused on God are destined to succeed. There are many evidences of this in both secular and biblical history.

God has a direct hand in everything. The people or society that focuses on God and religious righteousness will be helped by God. Wherein? In the fact that God has built general success into the universe for those who are focused on God.

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