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Your college major could determine your religious beliefs

College students who major in the social sciences and humanities are likely to become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious, according to a

University of Michigan study.

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Posted by nmclaughlin on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:02 pm

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Get A Clue

November 15, 2009 - 7:50 am EST

The obvious point is this: once one outgrows the childish need to believe in magical things and replaces that immature need with experience and education then it's easy to replace superstitious beliefs in the supernatural with a respect for the natural. Science, physics and facts trump pretend every time. Whether or not you want to believe something is true has no effect on the truth itself. Honestly, it's just like outgrowing one's belief in Santa Claus. Once you get old enough to understand and experience truth, you learn the difference between a really nice myth with some good advice and reality. Smart people take what they need and leave the rest and don't waste their lives clinging to pretend...or worse, using it to justify wholesale prejudice and murderous behavior.

nemo0037

November 16, 2009 - 1:10 pm EST

I know a few parents who feared that sending their kids off to evil public colleges would destroy their child's faith and result in a trip to Hell. Those parents sent their kids to such places as Bob Jones University or Liberty University, where they would be taught "orthodox" stuff, like 6-day creation "science" and the history of America the Christian Nation. This may have been comforting to those parents, but only delays the day when the kids must learn to interface with people of differing backgrounds and views. Whether this extended isolation from the "outside" world is helpful long-term, I tend to doubt.