I Am An Atheist

So from what I've found, people who are autistic are more likely to be atheists.

http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2011/09/26/why-are-high-functioning-autistics-more-likely-to-be-atheists-or-agnostics/comment-page-1/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2039690/Atheism-autism-Controversial-new-study-points-link-two.html

I was actually diagnosed with Aspergers 3 years ago when I was 15, and at the time, I was only just beginning to question religion.

The doctor who diagnosed me stated to my parents that my IQ is above average intelligence.

Does this make sense considering that atheists also tend to rank higher in intelligence overall?

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rbrtoo

There is definetely a relation between religion and intelligence. The less intelligent people are the more they are susceptible to flawed logic. They just don't understand. In academic circles the amount of theists is definetely low, when an academic uses the word 'god' is it likely he means 'the way of the world' or something abstract and metaphorical.

Opiate462

Although that is true, I think more than anything it's about conditioning and fear...when, as a impressionable child, you've been told by people you trust (i.e. parents and other adults) that something is a certain way you tend to believe them..then as you grow older even though you may doubt what you were told there's still that fear of being wrong and going to hell... it took me a long time to go from believer to agnostic to atheist...

rbrtoo

I understand. However I think it's harder to fear something when your brain fully understands how ridiculous it is to believe in it. On the other hand fear tends to be slightly irrational.

sunnyelp

I was raised in a very religious home, yet I have never believed. I do remember being fearful of all the fire and brimstone preaching, but the older I got the less I could tolerate any of it. By the time I was 13, I identified as atheist.