Asking the Right Questions

FOR THE SAKE of political correctness, for the sake of sheer tact, there may be some questions which are best never asked. Which tend to be more intelligent, liberals, or conservatives? Or are they equally bright? Which group tends to be better educated? It turns out this is an easy one to answer, because its measurable from simple surveys. What about deeply religious people compared to non religious types? Believe it or not, and presumably many will not, a recent study seemed to suggest that people who are fervently, zealously dogmatically religious, and people who are right wing extremists, suffer from brain damage. something to do with an underdeveloped cerebral cortex. By all means, look it up. it is noticeable that these two types of people, the religious fanatic and the right wing fanatic, are often, very often, the same person. Similarly, everyone has noticed that America's college and university campuses, with the exception of zealously religious institutions of higher education, such as Liberty University and Oral Roberts University, tend to be heavily concentrated with liberals, both among the students and the faculty. Universities tend to be less religious and more politically progressive than the general population. it has been noted that colleges and universities tend to attract intelligent, educated people. Among Americans who were not raised coercively to be a conservative christian, and acquired higher education, Americans tend to be progressive. Without question, your mainstream conservative evangelical Trump supporter, who tends to be blue collar, is less educated and, studies suggest, less intelligent than the far left anti-Trump masses who cluster in institutions of higher education. The people, studies suggest, who deny climate change, science, evolution, and history could stand a bit of higher education. Like everything else, there are many exceptions. it is surprising how many well educated people continue to embrace primitive, factually false religions merely for the sake of preserving tradition, even while confronted with the reality of modern science, which of course utterly refutes all human religion. From this we must conclude that we humans cling to our comfort sources.