(June 18, 2016 at 5:52 pm)abaris Wrote: And you would be wrong in overestimating the European education systems. Religiosity in Europe is weaker in general, but you can still see the same gap as in the USA. Between the large hubs and the rural areas.
True - most the rednecks in Europe are as clueless as their counterparts anywhere else. Still - in quite a lot of Europe higher education was free until quite recently, so even some of those country bumpkins were able to get some sort of education - more so than in US, anyway.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw