"Supposedly" is correct. Dicky D. ain't that bright. Vox puts him in the 1SD to 2SD range, but I suspect he's closer to the 1SD end if not merely mediocre. He's like a kid who recently discovered that with a trick of math, you can make one equal two, although he isn't smart enough to understand the trick hides an error (i.e., dividing by zero). Nevertheless, his rebellion to God drives him to spread the good news of 1=2 throughout the land, desperately needing others to affirm his stupid error.

Vox asserts that high-church atheists are socially autistic. I'll go a step further: I think atheists must be of considerably lower intelligence (than they themselves portray) to deny the obviousness of the Creator, let alone accepting all the idiocies that tend to go along with that denial. However, the promotion of this stupidity is understandable: they're desperate for approval and affirmation. I suspect somewhere deep down--well below consciousness--they intuitively know they're way wrong and need a mob/herd to find justification.

Like homosexuality, atheism is just a stupid, self-defeating fad. I expect other soon-to-be-popular sexual perversions (legal polygamy, pedophilia, bestiality, etc.) will also be self-defeating fads (though shorter-lived, I think). I only hope democracy, wealth-redistribution, and Keynesian economics will similarly fall out of vogue. (One shudders to think of what might replace these, though, sans truth.)