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Originally posted by Thisisit
I'm not sure you read what you quoted yourself?
Religious people are the majority in all educational levels because religious people are the majority in the general population, that doesn't mean there isn't a correlation.
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I've read and interpreted it correctly. It's true that the poorest and least educated people are also the most religious, but it is wrong to suggest that the correlation between religious belief and education is uniformly negative because religious people are a majority among BOTH the uneducated and the educated as shown by this
graph from that research I've posted. The effects of education to religion is more complicated than what is commonly believed. They are not just simple increases or decreases but their results vary. Higher level of education does not diminish or destroy religiosity. It only alters the religious worldview of the individual. Like for example, the more educated one is the less likely he is to hold an exclusivist viewpoint that one's specific religion is the only one true faith, and blindly follow that faith. Education encourages one to liberalize their religious beliefs and be tolerant of other worldviews and become a pluralist that's why educated people more likely associate themselves with less fervent, non-evangelical religious denominations while most scientifically illiterate people are more likely to be religious fundamentalists. It's the religious worldviews of the highly educated and those with little education that education affects. But it's a myth that the more educated one gets, the more likely he is to be an atheist as education itself does not prove anything about religion in general one way or another. Decline in religiosity has more to do with financial security and the
pursuit of wealth than education as it is religion and materialism that are inherently incompatible. But even that doesn't hold true in all cases.
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We definitely don't need to go back that far to see how retched the church is. How about actively aiding one of the most deadly pandemics of all time?
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Many controversial historical events are written with ideological biases especially if you live in a country where it has a clear history of being against that particular historical subject so it's very important to know the historical concensus instead of solely relying on what is taught on your history class.