PingviN
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Judaism is in the interesting place of being as much an ethnicity and a culture as an organized religion. Jews were oppressed not just because of their religious beliefs, but also because they were ethnically and culturally different than those around them. This may sound like a minor difference, but you were also being pedantic, so I get to return the favor.
Still religious. Not the same as Catholics or Protestants, but still religious. If you want to nitpick, nitpick Rob's separation of "religious people" and "Jews".
There's a difference between calling someone wrong and calling someone stupid. The former is an argument on topic, the other is an ad hominem characterization. The intelligence level of the people making the claim has little baring on whether the claim itself is correct.
If you really wanted to make that claim (because, I don't know, you're a real jerk), you'd have to look at data outside the argument itself. Even those studies, though, are mostly influenced by demographic differences. When you control for income and education level, they don't show a strong relationship between religiosity and intelligence.
Fine, I'll go with ignorant instead.
Claiming the world is 6000 years old is ignorant. Rejecting the theory of evolution in favor of creationism is ignorant. I suppose you can be somewhat intelligent (though I doubt much more than low-average) and still believe man was made out of clay.