I came across an article the other day that read mostly about atheists and liberals having a higher I.Q.
I thought it was interesting - and have been thinking why this might be, or why it’s even important.

For one, it’s not important to me.

I don’t think having a higher I.Q. makes you a better person than the next and the same goes for having a…not so good I.Q.
My hang ups about where I live involve the constant effort to stay on top - to know about what’s going on in the world, and how we might be able to talk 4-5 hours on it without actually coming to a good conclusion, or one that digs us deeper into a trench of frustration.
I get tired of it. There is surely a lack of humility and humbleness, for the most part. 

But going back to the IQ thing, and how it doesn’t matter to me.

I am constantly reminded on the way I see God and am lead to God. I understand that God and religion do not make much sense to a lot of folks beyond the aspects of faith and perhaps the promise of an afterlife, and more influentially, a place most call Heaven.
Like Tolstoy who saw God in the lives of his servants, a simple faith…and a faith of the poor. A faith of the disabled. The least of these and the ones with the hearts of children and innocence. 

When you see a woman standing in the ruins of her Haitian home and she says, “God is good…” I am reminded of Job and how he was picking at his scabs with broken pots —
God is good? But my home is destroyed and I am again, left in poverty though I’d never had much to begin with — this hope, in the eyes of the broken and the poor in spirit, is where my God is. 

As poet Mary Oliver so elegantly writes,

“God, once he is in your heart,
is everywhere…”

And to explain this to that demographic of higher intellectuals, “liberals” and atheists, is somewhat difficult. The poor are not ignorant neither are the developmentally disabled - for they are the ones that truly lead us into the heart of God. 

I understand your intellect is important to you and this understanding of philosophy that a god does not exist makes life easier in some way or the other.

I can come to understand what you mean, and why it doesn’t matter to you — because it seems as though you have figured it all out and thoroughly proven that it is the less intelligent that are led blindly by something they can’t see or can’t prove. 
It’s true. You have us there.

I know you can have a good morality and so can I. I can be a free thinker too - perhaps our differences aren’t so different after all. 

Your IQ is not important to me…but you are…and your heart. What you do is not important to me…but I care about how you..how you treat yourself and your community. 

But this is nothing new and I’m just rambling because I’m offended when anyone takes a jab at humanity. When you (majority media) state that liberals and atheists are of higher intellect, you are stating that “conservatives” and persons of faith have less intellect, and it just seems a little off and you’re making me feel dumb…and…many of my friends and family look dumb..and they’re not. I’m by no means conservative, nor does that mean it’s a bad thing, nor am I a super liberal and I’m not saying it’s a bad thing either. 

These tags are dangerous and we always have to categorize people into some line or the other so we can handle them. Humanity cannot be classified. We are all made of the same thing, yet we weave in and out of places with the idea that we would’ve never had anything in common. 

We will not progress until we integrate our hearts and imaginations; it’s segregation that is ignorant and damaging. 

Hmm.
Then again, ignorance is bliss.