Why are College educated the only ones who?

Question

are atheist or freethinkers?

Its seems the more educated you are the more you demand proof in-terms of religion? I've heard people in the sciences and humanities dont hold blind or unwavering faith. If they do its mostly a shell of what is faith or religion.


your thoughts?

Answer 1

educated people more or less understand the world better; they don't blindly put faith in some book written by goat herders.

Answer 2

There were astronomers, who were interviewed on TV (NatGeo). The farther they explored into the endless space of the Universe, seeing how the heavenly bodies seemed to move in unison and the mystery that they project as a whole, these scientists could not help believe that there is Someone behind all these.

A philosopher said, the more you know, the more you see your ignorance.

I believe true education is something that our educational system does not anymore have now. Those who are the products of this, majority of them have corrupt values, while only a few preserved their spiritual functioning intact.

Answer 3

By and large most of the colleges in the world were church run.

Harvard, the first in America, was founded by the clergy. Duke and USC are both Methodist schools. Notre Dame is Catholic as is Loyola.

Virtually every prestigious school that people WANT to get in to, most of the Pack 10 schools are all religiously founded and often have religious officials of some type on their boards.

The secular schools are your state colleges and universities and only a few of those are on the top students wish list.

The first area of the world to have free public education was in the NEw England area when the Congregationalists and Presbytarians in the mid-1600s declared all towns had to build schools and provide education in reading (the Bible was the primary reading tool) and numbers.

Answer 4

I have a masters degree but was an atheist from as early as I can remember. In college I took courses in comparative religion and psychology of religion. The latter was taught by a professor who believed religion was a form of neurosis. I have no problem with people of faith unless they try to bring that faith into the public policy arena.

Answer 5

Alot of the more educated people are also the more prideful people. Pride is a sin, an abomination unto the Lord. The more educated are more often than not the better paid. A lot of the times the more money someone makes the less they depend upon God. What the more educated seem to not realize is that God has given this gift.

Answer 6

My thoughts are that the majority of scientists and science students are believers in God. Doesn't mean that no thought was involved, as I sure there was. Free-thinking is not prohibited by believing in God, after all the truth will set you free baby.

In addition, you atheists guys that think you are intellectually superior always leave out common ordinary people among your group. You act like you don't want to associate with the blue-collar atheists. Every atheist is not a college student, nor a professor, nor a philosopher, nor a free-thinker. You really should stop making divisions among yourselves like that, because it is pure arrogance. It is arrogance if a Christian does it, and it is arrogance if an atheist does it, okay? Just think on that. Peace, I'm out.

Answer 7

For one thing, if you think that College educated atheists are the only intelligent beings in this world, then you are delusional in your own little world, and you need to open your eyes and look around. Who would deny the scientific theorys from the likes of Isaac Newton, Johann Kepler, Robert Boyle, Lord Kelvin, Louis Pastuer, Matthew Maury, Michael Faraday, Clark Maxwell, John Ray, and Carolus Linnaeus? All of these great scientist from the past were Bible-believing creationist Christians, and the theories they founded are still taught in schools today. Need I say more? O, but I will, for there is so much to say.
Even though it is not possible to prove God's existence by rigorous scientific demonstration, it is even more impossible to prove His non-existence. To prove that there is no God anywhere in the universe, or at any time in the universe, would require one to be onmiscient and omnipresent, which are themselves attributes of deity. So, one would have BE God in order to prove that ther IS NO God. Dogmatic atheism is therefore self-contradictory foolishness.
All but the most presumptuos must acknowledge at least the possibility that God exists and that we are His creatures. We can then examine that possibilty in terms of probabilty. If we do happen to be His creatures, then our minds and reasoning are likewise created by Him, and we can use these very entities and experiences as instruments with which to evaluate this probabilty. If these were not created by Him, however, and if indeed there is no God, then it is quite absurd to believe that we can trust our own minds and reasoning faculties at all, for they are then merely the products of chance and randomness.
Although there may be certain philosophical arguements by which one can avoid acknowledging the existence of God, the great solid weight of scientific and statistical evidence, when rationally evaluated, clearly tips the scale heavily in favor of God. One rejects God only by the choice of his will, not because of the evidence.
To believe in a creator God is not blind faith, however, it could be called an unwavering faith as there is no substantial proof (if any at all) to the contrary.
You, sir, by the words of your own proverbial pen, or key board, if you will, are putting your trust in hearsay. Who did you say holds to blind faith?

BTW, your little presumptous theory is invalidated by the very fact that I am a FREE-THINKING college educated Christian creationist.

Answer 8

I'm a Christian, and I have a Masters' degree. Just because I have education doesn't mean that I don't have faith. My faith is actually stronger because of my education.

Answer 9

I have never found my college education to be at odds with the beliefs I hold. Actually, I am pleased to let you know that I am someone who reads constantly and one who has been given free will. Free will allows me to believe what I want and I WANT to believe what I have read. I find no contradictions in the scriptures because I was taught to read the entire scripture and not take things out of context.

Thanks for allowing me to answer.

Answer 10

i'm not sure about the college educated claim, it seems to me that a willingness to seek is all that is necessary to find the flaws in religious thought. however, in college you are expected and implored to question your beliefs in everything and as soon as you do that with religion, it starts to smell funny. conversely, in religion you are expected and implored to follow blindly, to not ask questions but to simply "have faith" that what you are told is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!
so i guess, if you are used to seeking and not following, religion just doesn't measure up to logic, reason, and experience.

Answer 11

Polls show that you are right - more education means more questioning in general and people with higher eds. are more likely to be atheists.

Also, polls show that as income rises, belief in gods go down - more people in poverty are die-hard Christians than people in higher economic positions.

For me, my journey toward Atheism began as a young teenager when I began to become aware of different societies and cultures. I now am a married homemaker holding two college degrees and I have been Atheist for many years - I have studied, both formally and informally, many different philosophies, religions and denominations and know that not everyone can be right like people of all denominations think they are. Its just not possible - all denominations must be equally valid or equally crap. Seriously, are Lutherans and Episcopalians really THAT different? No. People are people and enjoy having fantasies. To me, my belief in god was like my belief in Santa - great when I was kid, but just doesn't pay off here in the grown-up world.