Lower mentalizing ability erodes belief in a personal God.

Evidence

We reasoned that, if God is transformed from a personlike agent to an abstract impersonal force, then it will lose its intuitive appeal. Faith in such a God will erode. Our results matched closely these predictions. People scoring high on the autism spectrum expressed lower levels of belief in a personal God, an association that was due to the lower levels of mentalizing among participants scoring high on the autism spectrum. Other factors, such as personality, age, education, income, IQ, or interest in science were taken into account but did not change the results. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 591

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Norenzayan’s core Big God argument — mentalizing (theory of mind) is the psychological substrate that makes an omniscient, personlike God cognitively plausible; autism-spectrum minds lack that substrate.