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Why smart people struggle to find God

In this video I explain why smart people struggle to find God. Clarification: pride of the intellect as I describe it in the video can also concern Christians and not just atheist. Support me on Patreon:   / biblicalbookworm   You can contact me here: thebiblicalbookworm@gmail.com Sources: [S1] Percentage of people that describe themselves as religious in buckets of 10 IQ points. Data taken from MIDUS 2 (2005, https://midus.wisc.edu/) and visualized for this video. For this survey, intelligence was measured using the MTACT, with the results following a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance 1. This distribution was rescaled to the commonly known IQ scale for the figure on the thumbnail. Religiosity was derived from the question "How religious are you?" with options "A lot" (1), "Somewhat" (2), "Not very" (3) and "Not at all" (4). People that chose 1/2 (3/4) were classified as religious (nonreligious) for the generation of the figure. The red arrow was added to emphasize the general trend. A negative association between intelligence and religiosity has also been described in this meta-analysis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23921... [S2] Matthew 11: 25 [S3]    • Everything Wrong With Society Today! - Wea...   [S4] cf.: da Bergamo, Humility of Heart (1903), p. VIII, 3 [S5] Tolstoy, Confession (1882), p. 56–57 [S6] cf.: da Bergamo, Humility of Heart (1903), p. 19 [S7] cf.: Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952), p. 112: “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” [S8] cf.: da Bergamo, Humility of Heart (1903), p. 3 [S9] St. Gregory & St. Chrysostom in: St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea (13th century), commentary on Matthew 11: 25 [S10] 1 Timothy 2: 4 [S11] Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (1954), Part 1, Section 1, Chapter 1, 1st dogma: “God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things. (De fide.)” (Since God wants everyone to be saved — 1 Timothy 2: 4 — I conclude that it must also be possible for a child to find Him.) [S12] John 15: 5 [S13] Psalm 94: 11 icw. Psalm 37: 4 icw. 1 John 4: 8 [S14] I couldn't trace down the original source of this quote but since I fully agree with it I still chose to include it in this video. [S15] Richard Dawkins likes to point out embarrassing aspects of Christianity to his opponents in debates, e.g.:    • Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox | Has Scien...   [S16] Insofar as it stems from an inordinate preoccupation with what other people think:    • This Is the Christian Solution to Vanity   [S17] 1 John 3: 1; Matthew 19: 26; Matthew 6: 4; 1 Peter 5: 7 [S18] Matthew 18: 3 [S19] Here is the official explanation but my point is: "what does this even mean" Catechism of the Catholic Church 1367 [S20] Here is the official explanation but my point is: "what does this even mean" John 6: 51; Matthew 26: 26–28; Catechism of the Catholic Church 1374 [S21] Here is the official explanation but my point is: "what does this even mean" Hebrews 9: 27; Luke 23: 43; Catechism of the Catholic Church 1021–1037 [S22] Here is the official explanation but my point is: "what does this even mean" Matthew 5: 12; Mark 9: 43–48 [S23] Here is the official explanation but my point is: "what does this even mean" Catechism of the Catholic Church 198ff [S24] 1 John 4: 8 Image sources: Thumbnail emoji: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/g... [I1] Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006) https://www.thalia.at/shop/home/artik... [I2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...