Is one's level of education inversely or directly proportional to one's religiosity?

Answer 1

This is not an official "poll" but based on my personal experience, there is no correlation. I am from a small town in West Virginia, and on my job, I regularly meet people from rural areas and people from all levels of education. There are plenty who are uneducated and religious. And there are plenty who are uneducated and couldn't care less about religion. I'd say it's about 50/50.

I go to college and am studying Religious Studies. I have professors with Ph. D.'s who are religious, and some who are not. Among those students which really stand out as being smart there are quite a few who consider themselves religious. Again, I'd guess it's about the same percentage as in the uneducated sectors.

Of course, this is only my experience in 2 areas of West Virginia. West Virginia may not be representative of other states, and it is certainly not representative of every country.

So..........you'd need an official poll. But be careful about poll results because you have to understand exactly what was being asked, and who was polled.

For example, I am very religious, but I rarely go to a place of worship. So if it merely asked, "Do you go to church regularly?" I'd have to say no. But it would not be right to conclude from that that I am not religious.

Answer 2

That might have some merit.

But it is a fallacy to use that as an argument against religion.

For the educational establishment may simply have a very slanted philosophy of existence that underlies its curriculum.


I say that that is in fact the case.

High schools and universities, by and large, are not teaching wisdom, which looks at the totality of reality, but a particular philosophy of materialism underlies most of their curriculum.

So rather than truly educating, skills of a merely mechanical nature are given (even in the humanities), as anything above man is systematically programmed out of his mind.





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Answer 3

I used to think that, but my small children know and understand the Holy Bible just as good if not better than most adults with high educations. Why? Because they have not been contaiminated by false prophets and false religions and the evil of the world.

Answer 4

No, they are independent.

How else could a Jesuit Catholic Priest postulate the presence of Gamma Radiation in the background as proof of the Big Bang, which got Kudos from Albert Einstein when he presented his paper.

Answer 5

Peter was a fisherman, not very well educated before he met Jesus.
Paul was educated under Gamaliel. One of the top proffesors of all time.
I Cr 13;8a
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Answer 6

No. The Holy Spirit will teach you things that genius' cannot understand. The things of God cannot be taught in "educational textbooks". The deep things of God are taught by the Spirit.

Answer 7

No. The Lord chooses whoever he wants to. Sometimes he would rather have one who is humble in the way of academics because he wouldn't have to obliterate so much garbage to start over with.

Answer 8

I'll wager that we could encounter an intelligent life form sometime in the future with IQ's exceeding 5000, silicone based octopoids, and they would be religious.
\That being said, I believe the smarter you are, the more likely you are to question religion

Answer 9

Religiosity? Is that a word?


I looked it up ,and it is actually a word. It depends on one's beliefs, and how convicted they are, as to how much they are willing to educate themselves.

Answer 10

No.
Come on Guy, really now.

Money is what does it. Or grants and/or scholarships if you qualify.

Sure, one environmental impacts can keep one down, but if one decides to pull one self's up by their own bootstraps,---they can do it.
Here in the USA anyway.

Religion has nothing to do with it.