re: Do you think God controls the weather?

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43% of atheists have a college degree, compared to 25% of Christians.

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A few thoughts. 1). You're a typical idiot who feels that if you associate yourself with smart people maybe no one notices how dumb you are. But your association with atheism or whatever label you want to throw on it makes you no dumber or smarter than you are otherwise. 2). This is true across society. The adherence to a belief system doesn't provide us with any sort of reliable predictor as to a person's intelligence or lack thereof. 3). As the demographics of college attendees has changed, so has their religiosity.

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But that doesn't explain Schwadel's most surprising finding: For people born during the 1970s, not going to college makes you more likely to say that you're not religious.

The reason for this may be that atheism, agnosticism, and general religious indifference has become more normal across social classes, Schwadel said. "For those people who were born earlier than the 1900s, it might have been something that wasn’t acceptable among a lot of Americans, except those who were among the upper classes—those select few who were going to college and graduating in the 1910s, ‘20s, and ‘30s. But as college education has grown, having no religious affiliation has become less ostracizing."

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