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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: On education and religiousness
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 12:18:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 12:18:27 1983
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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	>I have the impression that the more educated someone is the
	>less likely they are to be religious (in the sense of being
	>"true believers" not religion-as-social-club).

My experience indicates that there really needn't be any significant degree
of correlation between "being educated" and "being religious".

I don't think "education" in the conventional sense (the metric of which is
book learning, college degrees etc.)  necessarily implies wisdom or maturity
(which I - with all the usual disclaimers - tend to equate loosely with
open-mindedness).  I've seen many "educated" people who were also very
closed-minded - they were "true believers", all of them: some in Science,
some in religion.  They all seemed equally "religious" to me, whether or not
they were theistic.  

Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook
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