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Debate Score:15
Arguments:12
Total Votes:15
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Are educated people less likely to be religious?

Yes

Side Score: 9
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No

Side Score: 6
2 points

This isn't exactly a debate, because there's no real opinion on this issue.

It's been proven with surveys that the more education a person has, the less likely they are to be religious. That's just the way it is.

However, I can go the other way and say that the dumber a person is, the more likely they are to be religious.

Look at 5000 years ago, with ancient Egyptian religion. They thought the heart controlled thought and emotion. That's wrong. They also thought that a demon would eat their heart of it didn't match the weight of a feather from Ma'at. ...wat.

And now people are slightly smarter and think there is only one god who judges you based on whether or not you believed in him, rather than how you were as a person.

Tahdah! Much more intelligent to believe in a god that gets you insta-heaven for doing nothing than having to risk actually trying to be a good person.

Side: Yes
1 point

Yes, because educated people have common sense, so they know that some things people believe can never be true.

Side: Yes
2 points

Define education. How educated must someone be? In what field must someone be educated in?

Side: No
Emperor(1348) Clarified
1 point

He is talking about university education. PhDs, people with Masters degrees, inventors perhaps as well.

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If you are trying to stick in "educated in matters of religion and faith", then no, as we have seen on this website, there is nothing about god that you can study or learn about. You cannot study miracles or prayer, for those studies fail, and you cannot test god or the supernatural. Learning about that stuff is limited only to holy books and philosophy, which if not true, are as useful as Harry Potter books.

Side: Yes
1 point

I think it depends on the person, I know someone who is really educated and is a Christian and he is going to be a pastor and he has studied lots of things but he can support creationism with facts and prove the Bible is true and God exists. Yet he doesn't go on anymore on here since he has a wife and kids to take care of everyday and he is busy.

Side: No
Emperor(1348) Disputed
3 points

You say he's going to be a pastor? So what has he studied?

Theology? Because that's not exactly the same as getting a degree in art, literature, science, engineering, computer science or another more rigorous degree. Theology is basically the studying of what to me appears to be fictional books and the cults that follow them.

Side: Yes
1 point

Yah he is going to be a pastor. He has studied science, theology, archaeology, geology, philosophy and I think that's it. I don't know if he studied philosophy

Side: Yes

I don't think so, because there are quite the number of educated people who are very "religious". Then again, it depends on what kind of education they receive I suppose.

Side: No

Because priests and ministers study in college for a long time to remain religious.

Side: No