Quote: Don't they highly encourage their kids to attend BYU? All that is is Mormonism overlaid with the facade of institutional/scholarly legitimacy.
It really depends on the "caliber," if you will, of Mormon you are. My father didn't encourage that I go to BYU (Idaho, Utah, or Hawaii) until I went atheist. Haha. Before then, my father didn't care too much for BYU. He went to SDSU, minored in life science and majored in spansih, and then UC Dan Miguel for a masters in humanities. So his educational world view is pretty secular, thankfully.
Many parents are the same, mostly parents outside of Utah or with minimal ties to Utah. Otherwise, then yes, there is a pretty big expectation that you would consider BYU. But BYU Provo is bitch to get into.
Quote:What's the saying? The smarter you are the better equipped you'll be at rationalizing your beliefs?
Statistically, yes, more education usually correlates with less belief. But according to Neil deGrasse Tyson, 7% of all elite scientists are religious. (note "religious" and not just "theist" or "deist")
Quote: That strikes me as being especially true for Mormons. Yes, they're educated. Yes, they're intelligent. But education and intelligence mean nothing if you don't recognize your own confirmation biases and takes steps to eliminate those biases.
I would agree, it's saddening. But as long as they donate their knowledge to the secular world and keep their stupid ass religion out of it, I'd pardon them of their crimes for now.
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