"Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says."

[Yoshieslunchbox]

Atheists find religion useful, it prevents the poor from killing the rich.

Sort of like Leo Strauss.

 

[Yoshieslunchbox]

Steven King wrote Moby Dick? I knew that.

Didn't Herman Melville write Cujo?

 

[dust1n]

Didn't Herman Melville write Cujo?

No, no. That was John Grisham.

Melville wrote The Firm.

 

[AxisMundi]

Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says - latimes.com

Based on all my online discussions and debates, it does not surprise me. However, one could argue that level of education plays heavily into it, as there is an inverse relationship between education and religiosity.

But more fundamentally, IMHO, I think the more people know about what they believe, especially if they believe in one of the major theologies, the less likely they are to believe it.

There is a certain irony, though, that the people that are most interested in religion are the irreligious. Perhaps it boils down to the fact that those who do not know their opponents arguments, do not completely understand their own.

And that's my arrogance for the day.

Arogance indeed.

Considering that some of the brightest mind of hsitory and today are religious folk, your comments concerning eduation and religiousity are false.

However, I have noticed that many Christians just don't knwo their scripture, and the theospammers on forums seem to copy-paste whatever relates to what they want to say. At least sometimes.

Why should Christians read their scripture and know it intimatly when their preacher cantell them "all they need to know"? Easier that way.

 

[Meow Mix]

Arogance indeed.

Considering that some of the brightest mind of hsitory and today are religious folk, your comments concerning eduation and religiousity are false.

Actually it isn't false since it's just a statistical statement; which clearly has exceptions.

Many bright minds often attributed with religiosity actually didn't have it, too, on top of that: Einstein, Spinoza, Antony Flew, Stephen Hawking, some of the Founding Fathers of America, etc.

Surely you are correct that indeed there are many bright minds with religiosity. Smart people can believe weird and irrational things, too (in fact Michael Shermer wrote an entire chapter on the subject). Some smart people may believe that they've found a rational reason to believe something otherwise demonstrably irrational because they haven't seen that objection; in which case they do indeed believe that thing rationally (though tentatively).

However I, too, have seen studies showing an inverse correlation between religiosity and level of education. Correlation doesn't always imply causation though, so hey? Whatever