The relationship between and intersection between religion and analytical thinking is a complex and hotly debated topic in the literature of both social psychology and cognitive science for a decade. Furthermore, the idea that religions facilitate acts that cause negative attitudes toward religious outgroups has a relatively long theoretical and empirical history in social psychology (Allport & Ross, 1967; Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Spilka, 1986; Whitley & Bernard ,1999) and is the main idea behind the evolutionary origins of religion (Atran & Heinrich, 2010; Bering, 2011; Norenzayan & Shariff, 2008; Preston & Ritter, 2013; Rand et al., 2014; Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007 ; Sosis & Alcorta, 2003) which is generally explained with the concept of cooperation of genetically unrelated people, who subsequently become members of the group. Therefore, highly religious people are thought to have greater prejudices against religious out-groups and different out-groups defined by ethnicity or sexual orientation than less religious or irreligious people (Rowatt & Franklin, 2004) because their in-group identifications are high. In this article I address three empirical questions about the connection between analytical thinking, religion and prejudice. 1) Analytical thinking prevails over intuitive thinking and diminishes faith in a personal God 2) Does religion promote prejudice? And 3) Does analytical thinking reduce bias? In examining these three questions, I present a three-factor model that explains the connection between analytical thinking, religion, and prejudice as a result of low-level intuitions that elicit religious belief and prejudice. The Dual Process Theory Not surprisingly, in the quote at th...... middle of paper ......CH: Christian Orthodoxy, Religious Fundamentalism, and Right-Wing Authoritarianism as Predictors of Implicit Racial Bias. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 14(2), 125-138. Shariff, A. F., & Norenzayan, A. (2007). God is Watching You Preparing God concepts increases prosocial behavior in an anonymous economic game. Psychological Science, 18(9), 803-809. Sosis, R., & Alcorta, C. (2003). Signaling, solidarity and the sacred: the evolution of religious behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 12(6), 264-274.Spilka, B. (1986). The meaning of personal faith: An odyssey of ongoing research. Journal of Psychology and Christianity. Whitley, B.J., & Bernard, E. (1999). Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 126 –134.