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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It shouldn't matter matter if your mom is in MENSA or illiterate, if you're a national merit semifinalist (people really brag about that?) or didn't finish high school.  People can believe bad ideas for bad reasons.  Smarter people are better than average about trying to reconcile cognitive dissonance but that doesn't mean an idea is correct.  What matters is not who's saying it, or where they come from, but why.  [/quote]

In the end, being religious - believing in God and Jesus and the miracles -  requires faith.  I've never heard a believer say any differently including the NMSSF above and her Mensa mother.  Almost all believers go through a period of doubting about their religion.   Some go through multiple periods during their lives - and they will eventually come back because they have faith.  Some say doubt is necessary for a mature faith.  Faith is ultimately not affected  by evidence.  Faith is beyond evidence and reason.   It is a gift that not everyone seems to have, but believers think that if you try really hard and pray to god, faith will eventually come to you.  That's what happened to them, in many cases.

People with faith pity those who do not have it, because they don't experience the warmth of God and they will not live with him forever after death.   They realize that's their choice, however, thanks to the gift of free will that God gave everyone, so humans wouldn't be robots, with everyone going to heaven automatically, because he programmed the ability to believe in God to everyone he created.  He didn't do that because he didn't want to make a bunch of believing robots.

If this doesn't make sense to you, it's not related to your intelligence level.  Some very smart and some very intellectually challenged people have the same deep faith in God.  God doesn't favor one type of person over the other.  We all have free will.  
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