Tara Rule says her doctor in upstate New York was “determined to protect a hypothetical fetus" instead of helping her treat debilitating pain.

Tara Rule says her doctor in upstate New York was “determined to protect a hypothetical fetus" instead of helping her treat debilitating pain.

  • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I mean it's pretty easy. It doesn't make a good marketing campaign for atheism, but the correlation between education and irreligion seems to be causal the other way. Being irreligious leads one towards more education, but becoming educated does not lead one away from religion… Getting a physics degree or medical degree just does not make you less religious.

      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        One thing people leave out is that there is a LOT to religion and spirituality. Christianity, for example, is not entirely defined in terms of rejecting evolution. That's just a (tiny) part of their beliefs. When you start in a science-denying religion (worst-case scenario), it's still only a small percent of your beliefs that contradict the science. So some people stay believers and deny the contradictory science… others stay believers "except the science".

        Many people adhere to non-science-denying religions. So while they are naturally less likely to pick a science major, if they DO pick a science major, nothing in it will knock them out of their faith.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        That’s true, I witnessed it firsthand, and it’s still baffling to me. Going for a degree in biblical studies and apologetics at a religious university whose draconian fundamentalist views I fully aligned with when I entered is ironically what caused me to actually question the “biblical inerrancy” doctrinal belief.

        Reminds me of

        Very few people come out of law school sovereign citizens.

        -Scathing Atheist podcast