Posted by Jim Henderson on: 06.16.2006 /
from previous comments of atheist relation of Parkview member who listened to Hemants interview with Pastor Tim…
“you won’t win many friends in a room of blue collar folks explaining that the more schooling someone has, the less prone to Christianity they are. ”
Could someone ask Tim to clarify- I can’t believe he would even get close to suggesting this
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Comment by: NCxian
1 06/16/06 6:36 PM | Comment Link |Jim:
Perhaps the poster meant that Hemant said this.
Comment by: A
2 06/16/06 11:59 PM | Comment Link |It doesn’t much matter who said it, it’s pretty much true, It never bothers me much though (I have a fair amount of schooling). I’m sort of a loose cannon anyway.
In light of the “camel through the eye of a needle” parable, rich doesn’t just mean money-rich.
Comment by: TXatheist
3 06/17/06 2:51 AM | Comment Link |I think it was Tim who was paraphrasing Hemant. Dr. Shermer and Nature magazine have both put out data that supports the idea. Nature magazine surveyed the top scientists and 93% were atheists. Shermer has done the same thing in studies. But it’s not just education, men are more likely to be atheists and my wife always tells me she’s smarter than me:)
Comment by: Kathleen
4 06/17/06 9:50 PM | Comment Link |Well, the data does support it. A (n athiest) friend of mine has an interesting theory, though - he attributes the negative correlation between college education and belief in God not to the fact that learning more makes you realize that religion is false, but to the university system as we know it, which separates (questioning) teenagers from the support systems and communities (includes churches) and from the immediate influences of their parents and thrusts them into a world where nearly everyone is questioning, no one is explaining, and the values with which they (may) have been raised are practically non-existent. He can’t support that (and neither can I, of course), but it’s interetsing.
Comment by: Ir
5 06/18/06 7:51 AM | Comment Link |Jim, Pastor Tim did not say that.
In the third dialog, Hemant quoted some statistics and asked Pastor Tim: “Why is it that as people get more and more experienced academically they stop believing in God?”
I think the respondent’s point to Hemant was that it’s not a great idea to ask questions which imply that your listeners are not smart.
Pastor Tim’s answer was interesting and I’ll post more about that soon.