Ignatius the Kiwi
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It’s not about IQ or intelligence it’s about education. The more information a person is exposed to and the more one is taught critical thinking the less religious one is.
There is in fact a positive correlation between leaving school early and religiosity.
Social values, Science and Technology (PDF). Directorate General Research, European Union. 2005. pp. 7–11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
If it doesn't have anything to do with intelligence then your metric for education being a value seems rather meaningless. Education is not a neutral phenomenon and the current educational environment does not expose students to all forms of knowledge. Most people, simply don't operate that way, they don't seek truth at any cost and they follow the system. Does the average University student read someone like Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Aquinas and others who might challenge their beliefs? No, they read a select section offered to them by the University and those educational materials don't reinforce faith or defend it. Typically the works they are recommended deconstruct faith or presume it's obsolescence.
Most University students graduate and become liberal or left leaning. Is that due to having been exposed to conservative thought or anti-liberal thought? No, it's because they've been predominantly exposed to liberal literature with all the implicit assumptions therein. Change the education and you can change the outcome. All students educated in the medieval universities came out Catholic, most modern students come out of university non-believers and liberal. That could change if another ideological group were to capture the education apparatus.
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