Atheists are smarter

Lifted wholesale from http://voxday.blogspot.com/:

The 5 or 6 point difference in IQ between believers & non-believers is touted by atheists. But most atheists are leftists, so it raises the question of whether they are open to discussing the more serious gaps in other demographic slices. Frinstance, the standard deviation lag of blacks in IQ in comparison to whites. It would be a positive if atheists who claim intellectual superiority on the basis of a few IQ points would open their minds to not only God, but also the fact of human biodiversity. Moreover, the atheists' IQ advantage is about the same as the average male IQ over that of women. From a public policy PoV, taking IQ seriously would mean a complete abolition of cultural Marxism and multi-cult in our institutions since intellectual and moral performance are closely tied to IQ score.

All this by way of saying that if atheists choose to boast of a small difference in IQ points, they would necessarily also have to accept disparities in mental performance elsewhere in society. Atheists however are not an honest lot in intellectual matters... it's important to remember that a minimal IQ advantage doesn't indicate an attendant level of higher moral development. It's much easier to persuade an intelligent person to support passively a monstrous regime since the abstractions involved appeal to the intellect rather than any basic moral sensibility. It's true that on a personal level, atheists are squeamish about actually pulling the trigger, so their level of incarceration might be average or below average. This is probably not true if the atheist is working for the state or the military, in which case, the moral is the same as state policy.

In the ballot box though, atheists are more likely to support cruel policies and candidates since the resulting evil is carried out by an abstraction (i.e., "the state") acting on behalf of another abstraction, "the common good." When the consequences of these policies are brought to the atheist, he merely shrugs and says, "we need to provide more money and resources to make the abstraction work better." High IQ fall in love with pretty ideas even if they produce a lot of ugly in the real world. This is true of both atheists and believers, but the believer is circumscribed by a moral law that transcends generations and even society itself.