Does the amount of formal education people receive impact their religious affiliation?

Someone's answer a while ago contained a link to this YouTube video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnldQ

which left me with another question.

Please state your occupation, level of education (including any school you are currently attending,) and your religious affiliation. (Please be specific when it comes to occupation. For example, please do not say "I work in the medical field" if you're a nurse. Just say you're a nurse.)

Thanks! That video was awesome. I am a lawyer with a juris doctorate degree and a BS in psychology. I have found almost universally, that people with a higher level of intelligence/reason tend to be atheist or agnostic. (most scientists (72%) are atheist because their profession requires logical thinking). See,

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intellig...

Unitarian Universalists have the highest per ca-pita education of any religious group and tend to be agnostic or atheist. Perhaps when humans evolve rationally and intellectually, religion will be a thing of the past.

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To answer your original question:

Formal education can't change what the Holy Spirit has instilled in you. So no..........it hasn't changed me

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Proletariat, B.A. Religious Studies, Non-Christian, -atheist, nor agnostic. I just believe in God.

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Atheist. By the time I was halfway through a doctorate in Biblical Literature it was all too clear.

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level of education and religious conviction are negatively correlated. there have been dozens of studies: Mensa Magazine, UK Edition, Feb. 2002, pp. 12鈥?3. Analyzing 43 studies carried out since 1927, Paul Bell found that all but four reported such a connection, and he concluded that "the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold 'beliefs' of any kind."

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interesting question, my instinct tells me a formal education might have an impact on how open minded you are...not you affiliation, but I am not sure. I am an artist and crafts-person with a BFA, (I make my living in the arts), and I am Jewish. My parents are both PhD's and Jewish...but have many friends and colleagues that run the spectrum, Hindu, Catholic, Pagan, Protestant, Muslim, Agnostic, Atheist, etc. etc. who are basically open-minded liberals politically speaking.