• solo@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Let them go to school

    are you talking to the parents?

    and half of them will be ex-Muslim by college

    Have you seen this happening for christians? They pretty much all go to school.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yes and education is very positively associated with abandoning a religion. In fact, most highly educated people are not religious. Among scientists it is extremely rare.

      It seems obvious to me that the first step to leaving a religion is critical thinking and exposure to other beliefs. That’s entirely what college is for.

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        6 months ago

        In a way I kind of agree with everything you mention.

        On the other hand if we think of how long education has existed in Europe, it alone, would not justify the percentage of existing christians now a days.

        It is important to take into consideration, who is in charge of the education. In Europe, it’s very often christians. Those in power who are not christians, more often than not, do not dare go against the prevalent religion in europe.

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          6 months ago

          They say that they are christiqns, but they never pray, visit church or follow the bible.

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      6 months ago

      Nah, the government. Trying to de-radicalize people with ingrained beliefs is hard and unlikely. Accept the parent’s wierd beliefs, let the kids go to school wearing whatever the parents want, and you get much less radical kids out the other end.

      Yah, every graph of % of religious people is trending solidly down.