Why Educated Christians Are Sticking With Church
New data suggests religious Americans with college experience tend to participate in services more often than their peers.
The idea is peppered through the writings of scholars, great thinkers, and New Atheist-types: Education is the cure for religion. Freud wrote that civilization “has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers” who have rejected religion. And “if religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason,” maintained Christopher Hitchens, “we would be living in a quite different world.”
New data from the Pew Research Center doesn’t disprove these claims, but it does challenge them. While Americans with college experience are overall
