(October 13, 2010 at 1:11 pm)Darwinian Wrote: The more uneducated and ignorant a society, the more likely it is to be religious. The more educated and knowledgeable a society, the more likely it is to be non-religious.
Why is this?
Because religion is a replacement for real facts.
The more real facts are known the less of a gap there is for theistic explainations, so less religion.
As the meercat says Simples
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.