(December 17, 2017 at 5:16 pm)Wololo Wrote:(December 17, 2017 at 7:28 am)Starhunter Wrote: But to obtain an education in a university, you have to be able to absorb atheist ideas. And if the intellectually ambitious of society are being filtered through this system, then of course there will be a measurable correlation between the educated and atheistic philosophies.
Well done you've completely missed my point. People as a rule don't become atheist because they are "exposed to atheist ideas", and universities are not chock a block with atheism. Most people become atheist because a) they're brought up that way or b) they've examined religion(s) and found something lacking and have thus discarded them.
What a good third level education will do (and if you're lucky a good second level education too) is give you the tools to look at a problem, critically analyse it and come up with a solution. That's not atheism, that's reasoning.
I just enjoy the irony that those who chide atheists for not having an open mind are often the same people who dismiss universities out of hand because some courses/professors teach things that don’t fit into the white, cis-gendered, Judeo-Christian world view.
I also chuckle at the idea that colleges and universities brainwash children. If living according to a certain set of behaviors and beliefs during a person’s most formative and vulnerable initial 18 or so years of life can be wiped away because that kid took a few classes, then I dare say the ideas they came in with sucked.
