2007-08-05 16:25:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually, I know a number of people with postgraduate degrees who are strong believers in various faiths, including several who hold doctorates in the sciences. Not all people who pursue higher education necessarily lose their belief. A friend of mine who was formerly an agnostic turned to religion while pursuing his studies in physics, and several friends of mine who were very good students discovered new religious beliefs while in college. I know some clergy members who hold Ph.D. degrees, and earned those degrees in secular fields before they ever studied theology. While it's true that many educated people do not claim any religious beliefs, it's certainly not true in every case.
2007-08-05 16:32:44 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because faith is blind. it is NEVER good to follow something blindly. if you do you take it for granted, and you lack the facts. I lack faith in the church, but not in God. the reason i believe in god is because I have had things happen to me that science can not explain... but for all i know science will eventually explain everything, and then the reason i will believe in God is because i always have. I would say that many of those educated people that you are talking about probably have a more open mind to other possibilities.
and i would like to add that there is a huge amount of people who are educated and believe in God... the people you ar talking about may not be educated exactly, but they have the not-so-common-sense called logic. I've had it since i was small... and for some strange reason most of my math teachers have thought i was a mathematical genius... just because i use logic, but when you use logic the concept of God becomes much less reasonable. i still believe but i just dont believe what organized chirstianity teaches. there is no logic in the idea that god is forgiving yet very good people will go to Hell for not believign in him, no logic at all behind that just religous politics
2007-08-05 23:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they are educated by liberals in American colleges and universities which have been well documented as bastions of liberal and Marxist ideology. This ideology is notoriously anti-religion. They profess "faith" and reliance in the government (big brother). Self reliance is a tenet of religious based teachings- "God helps those who help themselves", and "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds himself for a lifetime". These so called educated people usually turn to religion though when they confront difficult times in their lives or are facing their own mortality. I saw an interview on TV with Maury of the "Tuesdays with Maury" bestselling book. He was a college professor and self described life long atheist. Faced with his terminal illness (ALS- Lou Gehrig's Disease) he had decided he did believe in God after all. (There are no atheists in fox holes).
2007-08-05 23:39:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause faith is the emotion of people who need to believe in a god, cause the world is way too complicated for them.
When you begin to get an education you learn many scientific facts and connections that are not available to church folks.
2007-08-05 23:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many (not all) educated people trust in their degrees of knowledge offered by the world.
The science world can change their "theories and facts" when a new "evolutionary" bone is found.
Romans 10
2007-08-05 23:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um... is not it true that the fact most people on the earth have a written language was solely due to the efforts of missionaries?
Seriously, all those tribal peoples who had no written history, nor any written manguage owe their current written language to Christian Missionaries.
While maybe it is true that many believers in religion have not really educated themselves as regards their faith, the fact really is, that the majority of those who are religious are educated.
2007-08-05 23:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because faith is the opposite to knowledge, and I'd prefer to trust knowledge if fixing health or home.
Praying for crops or a cure for an amputated leg isn't my style.
I'd plant wisely with a back up plan, and fashion a decent prosthetic.
I'd agree with the commenter who states that religious faith, or lack of, has little to do with self reliance.
2007-08-05 23:29:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Faith is defined as the will to believe without evidence. Education has provided me with rationality to only believe with evidence.
2007-08-05 23:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by CC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is that really true?...or is it more likely that people who do not have faith instantly believe that anyone who "does" is automatically ignorant and unintelligent because of it?
Solomon after all, was the wisest human being to ever live, because of his faith in God.
2007-08-05 23:32:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You answered your own question - because they are educated. They are taught to think for themselves, and that leads to independence.
religion, as a whole, does NOT teach you to be self reliant or to think for yourself.
They have faith - just not in the same things others do.
2007-08-05 23:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋