atheists/ do you as a rule of thumb, assume that christians are uneducated?

Question

or that if educated properly ,would change their beliefs?
this is in response to an answer i read awhile ago,that actually stated this.
i was wondering if this was the general concensus among atheists.

Answer 1

Nope. I've met some very educated believers and some uneducated atheists. Correlation is not causation.

Answer 2

I don't think people who are devout have strong faith because they are ignorant, to rephrase the question. I do think there is a stereotype of ignorance attached to certain Christians.
That the Earth is not flat was a no-brainer for some non-Christian groups of the same era, yet the church screamed heresy and forcefully converted the ignorant savages who had already discovered this fact.
I think there is a point where some choose ignorance, when some might choose their futures based entirely on one book written during a very small period of history, and adamantly refuse to see something as obvious as a bowed horizon.
I'm not necessarily an atheist, so perhaps I shouldn't be answering, anyway.

Answer 3

Education and faith are 2 different things. Very educated people can be christian. But when christians start saying that they have the truth and are absolutely sure, that is an indication that they have few functional brain cells or use very few of what they have. No one has the truth. christians have faith that what they believe is the truth. Atheists want proof rather than blind faith. That is the difference. Accept that and any arguments will disappear. But the problem is that brain dead christians say that the bible is proof. The bible is a fantasy and has been proven as such. It was not written at the time it is said to have been written or by the people who it is said to have been written by, and they want us to accept that as truth. Sorry, this is where the functional brain cells come in.

Answer 4

I don't ...that would be way too generalized a statement for me.
I know educated Christians and Atheists....
I know of uneducated Christians and Atheists.
I know good Christians and Atheists....
I know evil Christians and Atheists.
My personal belief is that Christians either believe in God b/c that is what they were taught, or they have "found Jesus" to fill a void or give them a sence of security that they cannot seem to find elsewhere.
Whereas Atheists...and I'm not talking about the Ant-Christ people...just true non believers...either think outside the box, require tangible evidence, and don't require or find the external security/comfort that Christians do in their religion.

Answer 5

I don't neccesarily assume Christians are uneducated, though I do think that sometimes a lack of education leads one towards Christianity or any majority ideology primarily to explain things they can't comprehend.

However, the exact premise of a being a religious person is believing in a greater power that isn't seen, that isn't tangible. Religous people are inherinently not critical thinkers - they don't question.

A lack of critical thinking leads to ignorance...

I probably could answer this question better after a martini or two, that's just head start.

Answer 6

No, they vary too much.
I can't even assume what a Christian believes, since that runs the gamut from The Gay Christian Movement to To the King James Only contingent,
from young and old earth creationists through to those happy with evolution,
and then to the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons (or not, depending on which denomination you talk to!)

Answer 7

Absolutely not... education doesn't mean squat in my opinion... when I see kids graduating from COLLEGE who can't even spell (one, I know, can't even conjugate an English verb in the past tense when they write, and they studied at a higher degree level than most) or understand basic vocabulary... I don't think much of it. Add to that exposure to kids who were home-schooled by parents who refused to expose their kids to a wider view of reality in this world, and they generally didn't adjust well, I'm not impressed. So the whole "educated properly" thing is relative.

What I do see "as a rule of thumb" is many Christians, of various denominations and branches, tend to be simply unable to figure a few things out and fall back on faith as their method of explaning things away... even the highly educated college grads who studied "tough" subjects like philosophy and such themselves. As long as they're not foisting their views of morality on others I don't take issue with it.

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Answer 8

I am a Christian and see very many comments on this site stating basically how stupid we all are that we "don't believe in science" which is a stupid statement since we do, it's just that some are creationalists and don't believe in evolution. They also think we are all creationalists which isn't too intellegent either since we're not. Sometimes intellect builds arrogance and arrogance blinds ones eyes to the truth.

Answer 9

I do not assume anything. I know some very well educated christians, particularly catholics. I also think religious belief is based on things other than facts, so I dont think education would make many people change their beliefs as far as god goes. I think a lot of religion is based on emotional need as well as social needs.

Answer 10

I don't assume that Christians are uneducated.

I do assume what the Christian believes, which is a safe assumption given the dogmatic nature of said beliefs. Since most Christians believe the same dogmatic concepts, it's easier to make attacks against the arguments they put forth.

...their intelligence just determines how MUCH easier/frustrating it becomes.