Bad form to apologize for reality. Those at the low end of the intelligence continuum are more likely to believe in magic, and vote for "trumps."

Reality cannot be denied.

Just rational not delusional

Depends on how you define intelligence. One of the arguably most intelligent people who ever lived was a Christian.

I suspect religion is more of an emotional problem than an intellectual one. People can act like idiots without being idiots, if it is emotionally gratifying.
It's why kids have to be indoctrinated before they can reason, so they will develop hate and suspicion of all things non-religious BEFORE they have a chance to consider it rationally..

Go back a thousand years to when the catholic church was the cebtral force in all thought and learning, financed almost all art, music and was literally the mind of the nation. I know some deeply religious people; they are not stupid, simply adopt a differing view of the world and can accept the unexplainable aspects of religious ideology.

A good friend is an army pastor (catholic himself, now retired) who turned to the church a few months afer the first gulf war ... he needed something to hold life together and found the church better than a bottle. .. a route many others took. He once said 'I believe in god and the church; not because I have any rational explanation for God, but because my life would be unbearable without a belief, a hope, that there is something better than this world that we should strive to support'
His view of life is not too different to my own ... he feels a need for divinity to help him along the path ... I do not.

You don't have to search to find stupid people, in any area of life, even among agnostics. Belief and non belief are just opposite ends of a spectrum not not divide by intelligence,level but by the application of rational thought and acceptance of logical conclusions.vs ability to accept incongruence in the rational argument for the existence of god

I do not believe I am smarter than anyone as an agnostic, maybe more curious but not smarter. Honestly I do not trust anyone who says they are smart or has "answers" for any or everyone. The more I know the more I don't know. We are animals and our abilities are limited. Feeling good and working through my life is challenge enough for me. Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.

Define Agnostic because it's been my experience that many confuse Atheism and Agnostisizm. Or they think they are the same thing and they most certainly are not.

The great tragedy to me is that I don't believe that there is necessarily a lesser capacity on the part of religious folk for intelligence, but that through years of brainwashing and indoctrination they are taught to stifle those mental faculties.

We see evidence of belief-based ignorance every day. The scariest is from the highest echelon of our government. The good news is their base is dwindling, slowly but surely. If humankind survives long enough, we non-believers will be in the majority. Which gives us a slightly better chance of surviving even longer.

There is a lot of emotion flying around in that statement. However I do concur.