[Mr. Blonde]

Was able to find it:

Glenn Beck - Videos

copied from cached site, no image though (cause site is down...Reddit probably used up all his allotted bandwidth)

In the above video Glenn Beck discovers the year old study by Satoshi Kanazawa (whose name Beck couldn’t even begin to pronounce) in which he theorizes that more intelligent people tend to be atheists, and less intelligent people tend to be very religious. Beck not only couldn’t counter Kanazawa’s claims, but didn’t really even seem to understand what he was reading.

For those without the time let me break down the study for you.

First we have the statistics above. Young adults who answered “Not at all” to how much they believe in god have an average IQ of 103.9. The average IQ for a young adult who is very religious is 97.14. Certainly suggesting a direct relation to intelligence and religiosity. Kanazawa reasons that belief in god is natural for humans as it served our ancestors to fear an overseer of our daily lives and trust that our dead were in the hands of a benevolent caretaker. However, this default setting for the human mind requires no intelligence. What does require intelligence is to question the natural predisposition to believe in religion. A less-than-average IQ does not seem conducive to questioning the existence of god.

The relationship between liberalism/conservatism and intelligence is very similar, but I don’t want to get too into left/right politics on this blog.

Beck seems to believe that this is as black and white as “Atheists are smart, the religious are stupid.” I’m sure to him, an obvious idiot, that must be what this study looks like. However, he is completely ignoring that an intelligent person could question faith, god, and religion and decide that they do believe it. All Kanazawa is suggesting is that intelligent people are more likely to question the status quo.