When people are highly religious i think they are less intelligent.

Very interesting ... im not sure id use less intelligent since there are very smart people who are extreamly religious. .. maybe id say most are ignorant...they just dont know things....or dont do any research.
I myself am christian non denominational.
it is very true that much of the bible was changed...men took out or added things as they saw fit in order to control people.
However the bible is a good source of history still... from kings that lived to wars that were fought...so there is quite a bit of truth to the bible as well...archeologists have even descovered cities mentioned in the bible that people didnt think existed.

I see religious people as having a mind that functions slightly differently in that they are highly impressionable to religious symbolism and can experience faith and belief. My mind does not do these things, because it can't. I don't want to agree with the OP, but I suppose I do. Religious people tend to be woolier thinkers. They are more inclined to be impressed upon with emotional, poetic and mystical things than for their sense of reason to be affected by the lack of empirical evidence or incongruities and contradictions in the Bible or other religious book.

I also don't like the assuredness that atheists have though. Their unshakeable confidence in what they "know" mirrors the unfaltering faith of religious people.

When people tell me that they correlate religiosity to intelligence, I think they are less intelligent, and I'm an atheist.

Right you are. I find that highly religious people live in a symbolic world. They have trouble with logic and consistently ignore contraindications. This is called "confirmation bias".

Religion; the opiate of the masses. Marx.

I was raised in a church. Though I'm no longer "christian" I've met loads and understand their perspective.
Someone who blindly follows the pack is usually NAIVE. Wouldn't say unintelligent but the need to look at other shit and come to a SELF decision. I find ppl who have come to religion through there own investigations tend not to be naive and blindly follow the religion. But they almost - use the religion to strengthen themselves mentally and they often just search for information that benefits them.
i.e. passages on loss, drug addiction. The intelligent ones THINK FOR THEMSELVES rather than FOLLOW the LEADER if you get me.
Ive met some intelligent (grade wise) scholar christians who are naive and blind to everything outside religion.

so your comeback is tto insult my grammer, pretty sad in all honesty. the fact im online using an xbixxx and typing with a remote which is beyond annoying, excuse me for not giving a shit if my grammer is on point or not, then theres ttthe otherside of me not giving a fuck about grammer, take a second to remember what website this is and then think what a miserable person you must be to be spending you sunday night trying to feel better about yourself by insulting someones grammer in aaa IIN forum, thanks foor the laugh you sad sad thing, if you had somethinnng useful to add to this post like your stance and opinion on this post i would respect it even if i disagreed 100% but you couldnt even do that.. wow
but fforget you you have nothing usefull to say.
i wasnt trying to insult people who are highly religous, what i said was there are twoo types of them, the radical bbelievers thaat will blindly deffend what theyve beenn thaught abd arrrre completley close minded to any debate, proof or reasoning, even if they see it with their own 2 eyes. thosee are the peopple like ISIS, they will kill anyone who does not believe as they do but thats an extreme.. others will just outcast a non beliver and look aat them likke there is so,ething wrong with them.
the other type of highly religious people are not so close minded and accept people who hhave diffrent beleifes and are open to learning diffrent things and i respect those people.. i dont see them as less intellegent but the other type of people i just mentioned i do condsider unintellegent.. everyone is entitleeed to their beliefs and can choose to be highly religous or to still be religous but not practice it ritually thats fine as long as they arnt closed minded and dont accept that people may have ither belifes than their own,, basically being extremists

i have to agree with you on this, but there are two typpes of very religious people, their are the ones who were braught up in a family were religion and god were shoved down their throats and its all they know and if they every question any of it they were punished and told they would spend an eternity in hell if they ever question their belifes again,and if they did keep questioning it they became the outcast of their family and community, looked down upon like thhhey were so fucked up in the head, b.c thier parents were raised the same way as were their parents parents and generations beofre etc. these are the extremely unintellegent people who blindly belive every word of the bible down to the letter and no amount of proof or reasoning can shake their faith or open their mind to anything diffrent from whaf they were taught to beleive, even if god came down himself and told them science played a major role in creating the world and creating people it wasnt just me snapping my finger and poof i created everything.. this type of overly religious is dangourous and unhealthy, doesnt matter which religion it may be but there are groups of radical overly relegious people in every religionn and when they come face to face their is no debate are intulectual argumments its always bloodshed b.c one religion thinks they are right b.c its the only thing they know and so doees the other with no middle ground in between..
Then there are the other people who are still highly relegious also coming from a family who has more or less the same beliefs, but these people cchose to belieive and have faith in god or w.e their belief is, it wasnt by force and they can still keep an open mind to other theorys, religions and sciences.. these typpe of very relgious people i can respect even though i personally dont choose to be very relegious but i do belive in some kind of a higher power and i am spirtual

Well in the US the south or bible belt has the most religious participants by percentage and is also the area with the poorest education numbers also people of faith are more likely to commit violent crimes so makes sense to me

That actually has been proven to be true.

Less intelligent? Because most of them learned a religion from people who they trust the most, their parents? Because they choose to believe in something that helps them get through the day? Because they choose to have faith in a higher being, than in having faith in a theory completely based off of speculation with zero evidence that everything you see today just randomly came to be out of nothing?

I can't say definitively that either is true, but I judge people like you as being ignorant and less intelligent for choosing to believe in one -theory- over the other, then judging anyone of the opposite belief.

I read a study that concluded that people with high IQ's were more impressionable to hogwash than average people. Intelligent people tend to be arrogant about their intellect, and believe they are immune from believing anything that can't be true. In the study they would over compensate for their intelligent too often. It doesn't take much to bait someone, anyone, when they want what they hear to be true.