Quote Originally Posted by GavinGill View Post
Implying that being an atheist is inherently the "smarter" choice.

Which it isn't.

Dropping a religion doesn't make one an intellectual, and adopting a faith doesn't make one a fool. College kids and budding armchair-intellectuals may disagree, but it's no different than picking one political ideology or social theory over another. It's just a set of ideas that an individual can use to help them orient themselves, nothing more. What one does with it is another matter, but it has more to do with how that individual internalizes and expresses any and all other ideas than it does with any specific concept (religious belief, atheism, etc.).

Religion isn't a scary mental trap that leads people astray and holds us back as a species any more than capitalism, communism, etc. are. That sort of shortsighted rationalization is best left to bloggers.
Oh well - each to their opinion.
Just because there are other scary mental traps out there holding us back, I do not have to approve of the religious variants.