Does education kill faith?

Do you think that the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to not place too much -- or any -- faith in religion?

You couldn't prove it by us because we all went to college and graduated and we're strong Christians...for me personally I wouldn't say GOOD Christian necessarily, but Christian nonetheless.

That's been an argument I heard, but I disagree with it. Education might temper BLIND faith but it shouldn't "kill" it.

True education won't kill faith. True education will likely enhance it. (Has for me.) The problem is that we've come to consider "school" and "education" to be synonymous, and they aren't. Most kids who are heavily "schooled" are not very well "educated" at all. They are snobby dopes who knows just enough to be very dumb. lol

Now, heavily schooled kids might have their faith killed since many schools have a direct aim to attack religion, especially Christianity. Some of my professors regularly went on anti-Christian rants that rarely had anything to do with the topic at hand, and rarely served any purpose other than to express views. Imagine that happening at younger ages. Schooled kids are more likely to become successfully indoctrinated, and that can kill faith. Many are still total idiots when it comes to even common knowledge things about history or the country, but they know they don't like religion.

So no, education will not kill faith. School might, because school's aim hasn't been to educate in a long time. But if a person is TRULY educated, their faith will come out, at the very least, intact. Alas, the number of people truly educated has gone way down and in place of educated students, we got a bunch of self-entitled, bitter sheep.

When education proves that the world was not created in 6 days and humans and dinosaurs did not exist simultaneously and evolution is a proven scientific fast...it ain't doing faith any favors. You want to have faith in some unseen higher power? Go for it. Education, i.e. science hasn't done you any harm yet.

AtownPeep wrote:That's been an argument I heard, but I disagree with it. Education might temper BLIND faith but it shouldn't "kill" it.

And contrary to popular belief, the two can and does coexist.

well... i like to think that i'm well educated... I read on an abundance of topics. however, I have seen some unexplained things occur. Several have happened when people died. I can tell you that they saw something, one saw her dead husband, one saw his dead wife, and one heard the singing and choir of church. Something strange happens upon death, and science cannot explain that