So then your problem isn’t specifically just with religious people? It’s with any kind of group whose members ignorantly follow whatever that group says? I mean, if that’s the case then yeah; I can agree that people who choose not to think for themselves are not too bright. However I would like to point out that there are many religious people who don’t blindly follow everything that they are told. Who are naturally good without having to be taught how, and who call out the evils and corruption (like mega-churches) within their own religions. Science through the ages has been propelled forward by religious and non-religious alike; something that takes bright minds to accomplish. For sure, any big group is going to have good and bad members, free-thinkers and non-free thinkers. Those who consider themselves of that group, yet at the same time criticize its faults and try to change it for the better. And unfortunately, as humans, we still have “monkey brain” ingrained a bit in us. It’s human nature to group up and cooperate with those we feel most comfortable with and also be greedy. I think even the most benevolent of people fall victim to their “monkey brain” every so often, even if just a bit.
I’m just trying to say here that there is so much more variety of religious people than the non-thinking ones and that what you felt you had to say about them was an unnecessary jab.