Athiest

Athiest is a common misspelling of the word atheist. Many atheists attend public schooling that is substandard and also contains atheism/evolutionism indoctrination (see: Atheist indoctrination and Evolutionary indoctrination).

## Contents

* 1 Atheists searching for the keyword "athiest" at Google and the American Atheists website
* 2 Athiest at Wikipedia
* 3 Athiest at Freedictionary.com
* 4 Atheists mispelling the word atheist and atheist intelligence in the United States
* 4.1 Weak atheism and individuals with low intelligence
* 4.2 United States, atheism, socioeconomic data and intelligence
* 5 Notes

## Atheists searching for the keyword "athiest" at Google and the American Atheists website[edit]

See also: Internet atheism and Embarrassing incidents concerning the website of the American Atheists

Nate Phelps spoke at the 2009 American Atheists convention.[1] Nate is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry Canada.[2]

See also: American Atheists and obesity and Atheism and obesity

According to the leading web marketing organization SEMRush, one of the top ways that people find the American Atheists organization's website via Google searches is by misspelling the word atheist. About 18,100 Google searches a month are done for the keyword "athiest".

On October 17, 2014, Shockofgod's blog declared:

“  |  In the United States, due to more women and southerners attending college/universities, atheism is now negatively correlated with education. Also, given the significant high school dropout rates of many evolution indoctrinating public schools, this negative correlation is not entirely surprising.

As a result, American atheists contribute some of the most ill-informed/uneducated commentary on the internet.

Alexa is a popular web traffic tracking company. Below is a portion of Alexa's site overview for the website of the American Atheists organization and notice that 5.01% of their search engine traffic comes from the keyword "athiest" which is a misspelling of the world atheist.

From the Alexa website on October 17, 2014:

Site Overview

atheists.org

Top Keywords from Search Engines Which search keywords send traffic to this site?

Keyword Percent of Search Traffic

* 1\. atheist 52.97%
* 2\. atheism 14.80%
* 3\. american atheists 8.97%
* 4\. athiest 5.01%
* 5\. atheists 3.82%[3]

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A Question evolution! campaign blog declares:

“  |  The popular Christian YouTube video creator Shockofgod just released a hilarious video entitled Proof atheism & evolution are stupid.

On the video, he first did a Google search at Google USA for the word "atheism". The #1 search result for atheism was for the website of the American Atheists organization and they misspelled the words "separation" and "church" on the main page title tag for their website. The title of their website reads: "Supporting Civil Rights for Atheists and the Seperation of Curch and ...". Did the American Atheist organization's webmaster go to one of the many evolution indoctrinating public schools with a high drop out rate? It appears so!

Is it any wonder that the American Atheists organization has been silent concerning the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign? Besides being poor spellers the American Atheists organization's staff is probably poor when it comes to science as well![4]

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## Athiest at Wikipedia[edit]

Wikipedia was founded by an atheist and agnostic.

The word atheist is misspelled so frequently at Wikipedia for article searches that Wikipedia created a redirect page going from the keyword athiest to their atheism article.

## Athiest at Freedictionary.com[edit]

The keyword athiest is searched so many times by Google that the freedictionary.com website has a redirect from athiest to atheism.

## Atheists mispelling the word atheist and atheist intelligence in the United States[edit]

See also: American atheism and intelligence and Atheism, intelligence and the General Social Survey

Citing data from the General Social Survey (GSS), Theodore Beale writes: "..the two most common types of atheists are the High Church atheists with +2SD IQs (128+) and Low Church atheists with -2SD IQs (65-72). Note that the Low Church atheists actually outnumber the High Church atheists, 22.9 to 17.2 percent."[5] (click on the graph above to enlarge)

In the United States, social scientists define atheism in various ways which makes determining the number of atheists in the United States more difficult to determine.[6] See also: Definition of atheism and Attempts to dilute the definition of atheism and Definitions of atheist and agnostic

Atheism, as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and other philosophy reference works, is the denial of the existence of God.[7]

In his article How Many Americans are Atheists? Fewer than You Might Think, Bradley Wright wrote:

“  |  Another quality measure is offered by the General Social Survey, probably the best-known, most rigorous social survey out there. It gives respondents a series of statements about their beliefs in God, and it asks which come closest to what they believe. The 2010 survey found that:

• 3% of Americans “don’t believe in God.” • (Another 6% reported that they “don’t know whether there is a God and don’t believe there is any way to find out,” i.e., agnostics.)[8]

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The General Social Survey (GSS) is the "largest project funded by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation. Except for the U.S. Census, the GSS is the most frequently analyzed source of information in the social sciences."[9]

As you can see above, the social scientists at the General Social Survey do not define as strictly as encyclopedias of philosophy and many other reference works.[10] As a result, in reporting their survey results there is some overlap with individuals who some may consider to be merely agnostics.

Citing data from the General Social Survey, Theodore Beale writes about atheist intelligence quotient (IQ) scores:

“  |  "..the two most common types of atheists are the High Church atheists with +2SD IQs (128+) and Low Church atheists with -2SD IQs (65-72). Note that the Low Church atheists actually outnumber the High Church atheists, 22.9 to 17.2 percent...

Now, the statistically naive might look at this chart, note that the +2SD theists only account for 3.5 percent of the theistic population, and assume that this means there are more highly intelligent atheists than highly intelligent theists. This is not the case. As it happens, there are 11.4x more +2SD theists who either know God exists or believe God exists despite having the occasional doubt than there are +2SD atheists who don't believe God exists.[11]

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In a 2010 article, Beale writes: "Never forget that the smarter and more knowledgeable act put on by many atheists is inevitably nothing more than that, an act, and one that has absolutely no basis in empirical reality except for a three-point average advantage in IQ which is almost surely a statistical artifact of their insignificant numbers and self-selected identification.[12]

### Weak atheism and individuals with low intelligence[edit]

See also: Weak atheism and intelligence

Weak Atheism (sometimes referred to as "negative atheism") describes a belief system and philosophical stance whereby a person lacks a belief in God/gods. Using this very broad definition of definition of atheism, there are atheists who argue that babies are atheists (Of course, atheists cannot verify what is in the minds of babies).[13] Also, using this very broad definition of definition of atheism, it could be argued that individuals with severe mental disabilities and/or individuals born with extremely low IQs are more apt to be weak atheists (Of course, this also would be difficult to verify in many cases). This helps explain why the General Social Survey (GSS) data has twice as many low IQ atheists as high IQ atheists.[14]

### United States, atheism, socioeconomic data and intelligence[edit]

See also: American atheists, socioeconomic data and intelligence and Western atheism and race

In 2015, BloombergView reported concerning the United States:

“  |  According to a much-discussed 2012 report from the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public Life, only 3 percent of U.S. atheists and agnostics are black, 6 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are Asian. Some 82 percent are white. (The relevant figures for the population at large at the time of the survey were 66 percent white, 11 percent black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian.)

...Craig Keener, in his huge review of claims of miracles in a wide variety of cultures, concludes that routine rejection of the possibility of the supernatural represents an impulse that is deeply Eurocentric.[15]

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Research in the United States indicates that the daily pressures associated with being in the low income bracket reduces IQ by 13 points.[16] African-American and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in poverty in the United States. The poverty rate for Blacks and Hispanics is more than double that of non-Hispanic Whites.[17] In addition, schooling increases IQ scores and many racial minorities in the United attend low quality, inner city public schools with high drop out rates.[18][19]

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://lifewithoutfaith.com/?p=183
2. ↑ Huffington Post, May 2012
3. ↑ Uneducated and illiterate American atheists
4. ↑ More proof that atheism is stupid. American Atheists organization badly embarrasses itself
5. ↑ Mailvox: The distribution of atheist intelligence
6. ↑ How Many Americans are Atheists? Fewer than You Might Think by Bradley Wright, January 26, 2012
7. ↑ Multiple references:
* Smart, J. J. C. (August 8, 2011). "Atheism and agnosticism". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Retrieved July 17, 2014.
* Sarfati, Jonathan, Ph.D. (23 June 2007). "Atheism is more rational?". Retrieved July 17, 2014. See Creation Ministries International, Jonathan Sarfati.
* Day, Donn R. (2007). "Atheism - etymology". Retrieved July 15, 2014.
8. ↑ How Many Americans are Atheists? Fewer than You Might Think by Bradley Wright, January 26, 2012
9. ↑ About the General Social Survey
10. ↑ Multiple references:
* Smart, J. J. C. (August 8, 2011). "Atheism and agnosticism". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Retrieved July 17, 2014.
* Sarfati, Jonathan, Ph.D. (23 June 2007). "Atheism is more rational?". Retrieved July 17, 2014. See Creation Ministries International, Jonathan Sarfati.
* Day, Donn R. (2007). "Atheism - etymology". Retrieved July 15, 2014.
11. ↑ Mailvox: The distribution of atheist intelligence
12. ↑ Always call their bluff
13. ↑ Are babies born atheists? by Matt Slick
14. ↑ Mailvox: The distribution of atheist intelligence
15. ↑ The Atheism Gap By Stephen L. Carter, BloombergView, Mar 27, 2015 4:26 PM EDT
16. ↑ Poverty Stresses The Brain So Much That It's Like Losing 13 IQ Points, Business Insider, 2013
17. ↑ U.S poverty rates
18. ↑ Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores
19. ↑ Drop out rates