Can you please update the link to this article. Patheos booted off their site all atheists who criticised religion (the stupid, intolerant pricks) so the article is no longer there, however the InternetArchive stored a copy of it via their WaybackMachine:
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i lived in the Deep South when schools were segregated, as well as water fountains, waiting rooms, etc.
Even at age 18, i noticed the whites had dead areas in their thinking as they had to spend Considerable time & energy denying the obvious, that blacks were exactly the same, and a lot of money went into these separate facilities, and enforcing them.
I think the same thing applies here.......

To me, critical thinking absolutely involves a higher level of intelligence. I wonder if there has been any correlation with tRump supporters and intelligence. I don't think we need a study to answer that one. When a person is dying from corona-virus yet still thinks it's a hoax is the highest level of stupidity.

And it TOOK that long for them to figure out something we, Atheists already knew?

IQ is not that important if you don't know how to tie your shoe laces or balance a check book.

Maybe having a higher IQ just makes atheists more curious and less likely to take things at face value.

Silly question, there are many ignorant Atheists, just check out the conservative Atheist group!

Take someone who has lived all his life in the Amazon Jungle and take a university graduate and ask them to take an IQ test and see who fares well. Then take the university graduate and place him in the middle of the Amazon Jungle and let us see how he fares.

A late friend once defined intelligence as the ability to make appropriate value judgements in all circumstances. Personally, I think that an ability to improvise in many situations where something, tools or whatever is lacking and make the situation a success may be considered a good measure of practical intelligence.

However, none of this accounts for religious inclinations or beliefs. I do not think that intelligence is linked to religious beliefs or lack thereof. Even brilliant people can leave us wondering about their actions or lack of understanding in certain situations.