Is it because they're too stupid to realize that intelligence is gained by researching things? I became atheist because I read the bible and i read about hinduism, buddhism, shintoism, animalistic religions, and other myths and to me there is no way anyone can justify the totalitarian extortionist control freak who has little kid like temper tantrums in the bible named god? Doesn't the bible say that question your beliefs is a sin? Doesn't that stagnate thought? Why would a god demand you not think?