# Presidents and religion - smart enough to lie, or dumb enough to believe?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidents-and-religion-smart-enough-to-lie-or-dumb-enough-to-believe/577872 "2011-04-10T15:51:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidents-and-religion-smart-enough-to-lie-or-dumb-enough-to-believe/577872/61 "2011-04-11T11:58:00Z")

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> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> No, the word I am looking for is _literacy_. I question your reading comprehension skills.

Enough. Your posts on this topic are getting insulting and out of line for this forum. Stick to the argument without commenting on the intelligence and reading ability of other posters.

I realize this is a debate about religion and that includes how religion affects elections and politicians, but this debate about the purported stupidity of religion is off-topic. This thread isn’t debating religion itself.

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