Do you agree or disagree?

Question

For some people, it seem like the more knowledge they acquire, the less trust they have in God. What do you think?

Answer 1

Agree. I'm curious as to what you think, too.

~Scottie

Answer 2

I have read that religiosity is negatively correlated with educational attainment and that most people with genius level I.Q.s are non-religious. I think that when religious belief is based on faith is saves the believer from having to find evidence for what they belief. The beliefs become self-evident. A belief in god must be self-evident, I think, because it is an imperceptible entity and thus cannot be empirically proved. If the knowledge you acquire empirically explains things that were once attributed to divine will, I suppose that would erode one's faith.

Answer 3

Knowledge is a step little below wisdom...
All the knowledge gathered is just through the limited sense organs... But the sheer volume tends to inflate the ego, and thus reduces the trust in God. The trust was just a belief , more out of fear ... 'in case'... a sort of insurance policy.. !
All this happens, and stays, unless, a person is fortunate to have his sense of perception deepened beyond just the sense organs.
The clarity that happens, is like the darkness residing for 1000 years in a closed cave, vacating it in a moment when a candle is lit !

Answer 4

Disagree

Answer 5

I would certainly agree that the knowledgeable ( or shall we say , the enlightened ?) will have less to do with God. This is not due to any arrogance.

For them , the "God' that is conventionally portrayed by the masses does not exist. They understand God by a different name or different conceptualisation. In the Indian context such a god is understood as Eashwara, the all pervasive , all knowing and omnipresent reality.

The other God with various gadgets, ornaments , escorts donot exist.

Answer 6

I think it depends on what kind of knowledge people acquire. What happens to make people lose their faith in God is that they hear or learn something against what they were taught in the Bible, and instead of trying to figure it out, they just believe what they hear. It's like nobody wants to find anything out for themselves anymore; we've become a country that, if we can't google it in under 5 minutes, the information must not be out there. The same goes with any type of information, especially when it comes to God. Someone will hear "well, if God is so loving, why do people die horrible deaths?" And, instead of going to the Bible or a preacher, they just think "yea, that's right. God sucks" instead of finding out the information for themselves.

Answer 7

I would say that the more educated people are, the more they question beliefs--this is very different from "trusting" in God. Educated people look for evidence before coming to conclusions. But the idea that educated people do not believe in God is not always true: 40% of scientists admit to being religious--that's quite significant.

Answer 8

Depends on the type of knowledge you are talking about. I majored in anthropology in college and I noticed some people had trouble reconciling their faith with what they learned. I do not have a problem with belief and trust in God. It's in how you integrate it with what you learn. To me there would be no knowledge or learning without someone to originate it...

Answer 9

I don't agree with your theory. If someone, by acquiring more knowledge, becomes less trusting toward God, he/she never truly trusted in Him to begin with.

If your faith can be swayed, you don't really believe.
God doesn't come with a logical explanation.

Answer 10

Both are true in that if our quest for knowledge has "self" for it's motivation. then you have no reason to trust in GOD because you don't think you need HIM. then I would agree
However if your quest for knowledge is getting to know GOD better and learning how to love others as or better than yourself, then that is good. So then I would disagree

Answer 11

Disagree

More knowledge doesn't give u new ways to distrust God but it gives you the liberty to trust him the way you want rather than the way the religious institutions teach you.

When you aquire more knowledge you find His great power ,the power and intelligence with which He made this world .