I joined Mensa over 40 years ago. Over the years I have also hosted a SIG (special interest group in Mensa) for bible study in the town that I lived in. I rejoined Mensa last year and found that the group in general was much less tolerant of Christianity.
I suspect that as colleges transitioned into temples of the religion of secularism (the worship of man in general and self in particular), their influence would be disproportionately applied to those with higher IQs. I suspect a change over the years in the collegiate environment such that a Christian would first become cautious about declaring his faith until there was pressure to publicly renounce it. I saw one student with a T shirt declaring “Recovering Christian”.
Charles Murray (the guy who wrote The Bell Curve about IQ) observed that at the start of the 20th century IQ was fairly randomly distributed. Farmers, factory workers, shop keepers, and housewives all had fair representation. By the end of the century the economy had changed such that there were incentives for those with high IQs to be drawn to college.
I would like to think that many with a high IQ may have resisted the collegiate call to abandon their Christian faith and may even have grown in it. I thought to start this thread to see if there was enough interest to sustain it.
Subjects that might be worth exploring;
The difference between wisdom and intelligence
Aspergers and high IQ
Are faith and a high IQ mutually exclusive
Does IQ cause difficulty in a denominational world
Does IQ mean having answers or questions
How does Christian faith moderate or influence IQ
However, subjects do not have to be limited to IQ.
I suspect that as colleges transitioned into temples of the religion of secularism (the worship of man in general and self in particular), their influence would be disproportionately applied to those with higher IQs. I suspect a change over the years in the collegiate environment such that a Christian would first become cautious about declaring his faith until there was pressure to publicly renounce it. I saw one student with a T shirt declaring “Recovering Christian”.
Charles Murray (the guy who wrote The Bell Curve about IQ) observed that at the start of the 20th century IQ was fairly randomly distributed. Farmers, factory workers, shop keepers, and housewives all had fair representation. By the end of the century the economy had changed such that there were incentives for those with high IQs to be drawn to college.
I would like to think that many with a high IQ may have resisted the collegiate call to abandon their Christian faith and may even have grown in it. I thought to start this thread to see if there was enough interest to sustain it.
Subjects that might be worth exploring;
The difference between wisdom and intelligence
Aspergers and high IQ
Are faith and a high IQ mutually exclusive
Does IQ cause difficulty in a denominational world
Does IQ mean having answers or questions
How does Christian faith moderate or influence IQ
However, subjects do not have to be limited to IQ.