These books cultivate humility, transmission of right and wrong and the preservation of ethical standards. It does not mean they are great standards but standards for their time nonetheless. The fact they are old only means they need to be cherished and kept in the hearts of believers and accepted for their flaws. Great theology is great theology even if one comes to and errant conclusion out of ignorance.
You seem to respect these moral systems more for being ancient than for being good systems relevant to our modern lives.
Both candidates were significantly flawed
False equivalence. Only one was a sexual predator, business fraud, and non-stop liar.
A Hillary Clinton presidency probably would have been approximately like a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama presidency - steady leadership, economic growth, and Republican obstructioniism and endless calumny from conservative pundits.
Of course, there was the possibility of some of her emails getting out. And maybe an embassy somewhere would get bombed on her watch.
Trump, on the other hand, reached the one year mark with the lowest approval rating of any first-year U.S. President in the history of polling.
Thanks to Trump, the United States itself now has the lowest approval rating worldwide in the history of polling.
He was faced with the largest protests in American history on his second day in office when the Women’s March captivated the nation, and those protests were repeated on his one year anniversary.
He’s set a record for the number of White House senior advisers who have been fired or resigned in controversy in the first year.
He’s the only U.S. President to ever be under criminal investigation by the FBI in his first year as president.
Trump is the first U.S. President known to have been blackmailed by an adult film actress.
He’s the first modern U.S. President to be essentially refused entry into the United Kingdom, formerly America's closest ally.
He’s failed to fill a record number of appointed positions within the government.
He’s the only U.S. President to suspected of conspiring with a foreign government to rig the election in his favor.
And he’s set a record for confirmed lies.
The two hardly compare.
"However an analytical mind tends to be inclined to atheism." I believe that's an unproven assertion
Although the data supports the claim, it doesn't need to be proven.
What an analytical mind does well is to evaluate evidence properly, and in so doing, come to conclusions that reflect the reality demonstrated by that evidence. The confirmation that this has been done well is the accumulation of useful ideas - ideas that can help us predict and at times control outcomes. Ideas that can do that can be considered confirmed. If you've read a situation properly, you can anticipate it, and either utilize it to your advantage, or avoid any foreseeable harm.
One of the most fundamental concepts in analytical thinking is rational skepticism, or the unwillingness to believe that which is merely claimed or otherwise insufficiently supported. The application of rational skepticism leads to only one possible conclusion: atheism. Until somebody can provide compelling evidence of a god or gods, there is no reason to believe that any such thing exists. Unbelief in gods is the definition of atheism.
Faith based thought, or unjustified belief, is the only possible alternative. It is the only path to a god belief. And it is the antithesis of critical thinking.
That is why the correlation is between the analytical mind and atheism.
