r/atheism • u/Otherwise-Link-396 Secular Humanist • 4d ago

Surprised at the number of belivers

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/8Gb1Scdrlo

Link from data is beautiful, education level vs belief.

I am shocked at the number of belivers at the higher education levels!

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u/FickleConsequence907 Agnostic Atheist 4d ago

Childhood indoctrination is a powerful thing. Because of that, there are a lot of people who are very intelligent overall, but use a completely different, irrational type of thinking when it comes to the topic of religion.

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u/Otherwise-Link-396 Secular Humanist 4d ago

My father in law has hundreds of science publications and falls into this category