Percentage of members of religious tradition with university degrees, 2000:
Unitarian 61.1%
Jewish 60.2%
Episcopal (Anglican) 45.5%
Presbyterian Church USA 39.7%
UCC 35.3%
LDS (Mormons) 28.1%
Nonreligious 27.1%
United Methodist 27.0%
Missouri/Wisconsin Lutheran 24.0%
Conservative Methodist 24.0%
ELCA 23.6%
American Baptist 22.0%
Roman Catholic 21.7%
Black Baptist 19.9%
Southern Baptist 16.4%
Nondenominational 12.9%
Adventist 12.0%
Assembly of God 10.3%
Other Pentacostal 7.0%
Jehovah’s Witness 7.0 %
I just thought this was a bit interesting. Clearly the better-educated Christian denominations are also among those whose national leaders have drifted furthest from traditional understandings of Christianity, though I would have thought the UCC ranked higher in the list based upon its heterodoxy. (Incidentally, I believe there was a study a few years back that said Sikhs actually top the list in the U.S., but they were apparently not counted in this study.) Hat tip to
TitusOneNine. The entire sociological study is worth skimming, and
may be found here.
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this was an interesting read, how did you find out about it?
On your dissertation of Athanasius, what is your take on the Trinity Doctrine?
My understanding is that at the 1st Council in Nicea although Emperor Constantine, in the religious role as pagan Pontifex Maximus, sided with Athanasius, eventually he supported Arius.
Do you think that Athanasius' Egyptian background influenced how he interpreted Christianity and his suppport for the trinitarian Nicene Creed?
Well, well, it's probably more accurate to say that the phenomenon occurs at both ends, don't you think? And although you rightly criticize Anglicans, for example, for having strayed, I suspect the fact that you and I stay Anglican means that if it came down to it, you would probably find significant theological problems in the mid section - it's just that they're not the ones associated with university educated liberal tendencies. I'm not sure your conclusion is really valid.
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Education quells primitive superstition.
"primitive superstition" eh? What a "neanderthal" way of putting it...
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