Quote Originally Posted by Scowling Dragon View Post
Again: How does one measure smartness? And how is being wise related to having a diety?

"I worship the god of madness. Therefore I am wise".

I made it by their force of personality. Since religious priests and stuff need to be charismatic in one form or another to preach.
Well we have various tests in the real world that attempt to measure smartness. Less that measure mental clarity in everything except determining mental illness.

As to Wis=religion, I think what they were going for was a high wisdom person is an enlightened person and an enlightened person who was religious was therefore more in tune with their deity. But now they're tying mental clarity into enlightenment which I'm not sure if it exactly follows, because again those terms are very loose in their definition.