What irriates me more than anything is the smug assumption that with education atheism must follow.
I'm educated, my sister is educated, my friends are educated and yet we're Christian. In fact, most of us were raised in atheist families...either admittedly or in practice. My mom claimed to be an atheist and was proud of it, as was her father.
"What irriates me more than anything is the smug assumption that with education atheism must follow"
that is, of course, ridiculous.
LOTS of well educated people have brains that are defective to the point that they still can't grasp that god is b.s. and doesn't exist.
you, for example.
I'm forever reading (on message boards) posts by seemingly intelligent and well educated people (NOT you, for example) who believe in all that god crap
my mother raised me as a christian
or, at least, she tried...
at a very tender age I began to move away from all that religious mumbo jumbo
eventually even my mother stopped believing
we never really discussed religion, even as I reached adulthood.
but recent conversations have given me the impression that she, too, thinks it is all nonsense