Why is it hard for the Educated People to believe in God?

Higher education teaches people rationality and logic, and most can find little of either in religious systems. That does not necessarily mean no belief in God, many educated people do (I don't), but education makes it very hard to believe in scriptures supposedly the word of God which are clearly human originated, and always illogical, contradictory, in some cases clearly political in tenor. The fact that the interpretation of the "Holy" rules changes every few hundred years to reflect the then current political needs of the organisation makes it impossible to take them seriously. And the massive hate, prejudice, and harm done in the name of religious systems is another very good reason for denying their validity. Lash

it could be that educated people tend to be more rational. and it could be that they have never experienced god in their lives. and it could be that it is the least of their concerns. There are still many unexplainable incidents that could not be answered by science. and when these things come around, scientists should try asking god. but again, they would never try because they would feel silly asking hard questions in thin air but most of all, they do not believe that god exists. i am a medical technologist and i excel in microbiology. I am a roman catholic and i believe in God.

I don't know of other degree holders who don't believe in God. I am a college graduate and read books everyday to acquire more knowledge and continue my learning, but I DO BELIEVE IN GOD as the supreme being. I also agree with the statement of the beloved Pope, John Paul II, when he was still alive that JESUS CHRIST is the answer to every questions about life on earth. I am a devoted Roman Catholic. I also believe that when we have to abide all the rules of God for humanity, I could be save from destruction and eternal damnation. It is just so frustrating that people who extremely lacked faith find themselves superior than God and make heinous crime to upset God, like what Dan Brown did in almost all his novels, it is so hurtful to know that Brown's book is channeling evil to disintegrate the image of Christ and the Church. Maybe people with highest educational attainment questioned the very foundation of their existence because they are not satisfied with what they have in life and began seeking things which are unthinkable. But the truth is, we cannot attain everything we want in life, we must be contented with what we have right now and thank God that we breath everyday, life itself is a gift, a greatest gift from God. Science cannot answer all questions about life, but religion can. Good luck! God bless your day!

Hello friend, I would politely like to disagree a little bit here. I am an engineer so I consider myself decently educated and I am a firm believer in God.True, there are people who consider themselves "educated" and refuse to believe in God but let us not forget that when Doctors go to operate upon a patient for a serious injury, they also pray once before they start! the thing is we do not remember or pray to God in our good times. We can go on saying that we do not believe in God but the moment something bad happens to us and we have nowhere to go and nothing to do, we pray from our hearts and on many occasions we are bailed out of trouble!

In answer to your question, the following scriptures came to mind: I Corinthians 1:25-27 (King James Version) 25-Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26-For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27-But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; An excellent video on how science looks at the Christian philosophy and why Christian scientists are having a very hard time practicing in their field would be Ben Stein's DVD "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." This is quite a sobering well-done documentary and really makes one think deeply about what their base of knowledge is and how a wrong base can really lead to dangerous philosophies as a society. Finally, a lot of logical-minded people have a hard time accepting Christianity because of the emotional viewpoint that many Christians come from. I think a better approach might be information that is well-researched like Lee Strobel's book or DVD "The Case For Christ." All in all, unless a person really knows where to look for a good logical approach to God and His existence, it can be almost impossible to find information that hits the target for this subject.

Hey, I completely understand where you are coming from, I've met so many people in my life who consider themselves to be extremely well educated but when it comes to god they are complete numb skulls! Seriously it's called "Faith" for a reason. I'm a christian and I have a very christian life style, I'm not the smartest person in the world but I'm not dumb. I've got my degree and I'm satisfied with what I understand. I think the people who consider themselves too smart to believe in God are extremely dumb but that's just my opinion. Thank you.

I have a college degree and believe I am intelligent. I also believe in God. And, while there are educated intelligent people who don't, I'm sure there are others like me (and smarter and more educated) who do.

As a student of Bachelor of Theology, i would like to give the following response: The nineteen fifties saw the rise of highly organized opposition to the Christian faith. The opponents formed numerous organizations worldwide, launched many bulletins, magazines, and journals, and began capturing key seminaries and publishing houses of Christians. Even one of the key persons in the United Bible Societies was almost an atheist, and published his testimony in a book titled, "Leaving The Fold". The book was released by Prometheus, the largest atheist publishing house in the world. Many large and aggressive rationalist and atheist publishing houses and book clubs also came up around the world. This was also a time when techniques of propaganda, mind-manipulation, and debating were pressed into service against the Christian faith, and refined to a high level for this task. The coming together of all these movements resulted in a synergy against the Bible and the Christian movement. This combination gave them great insights and helped them to refine the methodology of attacking the Bible. Instead of using general attacks, they became more specific. Using the insights gained from studies of propaganda techniques, methods to harness mass-movements, fuzzy-logic, and numerous other techniques, they started attacking the Christian faith in a more sophisticated way. The last half of the twentieth century saw the rise of specialization in every field of science, technology, and social sciences. The tools used also became refined and sophisticated. The same became the norm in anti Christian movements of this period. Radicals, rationalists, and atheists developed specialized fields, techniques, and tools for attacking the Christian faith. Communist propagandists from the former USSR, China, and other Marxist countries greatly helped to refine and consolidated the techniques. Only an equal level of sophistication and specialization in the Apologetic camp could meet this new wave of assault.

People seem to think that religion and science are two different things. In reality if you look at the seven creative days as 1,000 year long days it makes much more sence.

People don't believe in God for many reasons. Scientifically speaking, God is not proven; therefore why should an educated person believe in him? The implication that Education = not believing in God is kind of ridiculous, unless I am allowed to correlate that those who are Uneducated and believe in God are equally as stupid from an atheistic viewpoint. The reality for me is that most religious people claim they KNOW god and have talked with him/felt him/experienced him in some way, yet after the thousands of years of his worship we still do not have any tangible evidence to show to someone and say: "This is my god!" Science and god do not go hand in hand. I assume some religious people actually go to college and get degrees. These people say they have a calling on their life, and I assume most of these people aren't called to minimum wage jobs. When one studies science one can blatantly see that there is no real way to prove the existence of some sort of god-like being, because it is unmeasurable in any way. In fact, scientific studies have been held that examine things such as prayer; and inadvertently they have proven that it does nothing! Scientifically speaking it is virtually a placebo. I think this question is just really ridiculous, as (like I said) it implies that religious people never go to school. You can find just as many atheists living in cardboard boxes on the side of the street as you can find atheists who are well educated. Likewise, I presume the same goes for other religious people.

Well actually,not all people really do believe in God because they just don't simply believe in miracles and mysteries. I do admit that I don't believe in God because I believe that God is a creation of humans to have organization,peace and unity amongst all raise. People believe they could unite the nation by creating such belief or religion as God. Also, God is created for people to rule over and control over people,a great example of this is the Vatican City where in religion or should I say God is the ruler and God is represented by the pope wherein he has the power to control people,rule people and hold the law in his hands in his own way and desires. The good thing in the belief of God is that people know to cooperate,help and love one another no matter what raise they came from,it's just so sad that other people are still too racist amongst each other. As for me, I will say that I am an agnostic person and I am a man who believes in the things that has proof. Most miracles are just made by the imaginations of human themselves,so for me unless this miracle has no evidence or proof to show then there's nothing else to believe in it.

Hmm steve i have to say some people are like that, they learn a lot and then they start looking at things more differently, maybe they get into the technical stuff and start looking at things more "scientifically" i guess and then have got reasons not to believe in God or maybe some think they are too smart and they don't need God at all, but blessed are the ones who always fear God, I fear God... but there are a few people who are great achievers and still do believe in God, but i guess there are not many people who are like that... God bless all of us....have a nice day Steve!

Although i never believe in God i don't think that believers of God are not smart or less educated. In our country we are raised up without knowing anything about God . I feel ok for that but i respect those who believe in God at the same time. In my opinion those who believe in God don't care about whether God really exists because God already is in their heart. It's hard to use science to judge all these.

On the contrary, the scientist that are driven to find answers always have God in mind, especially the ones that have been studying the religion that they were brought up into. To find the answers of what God might be would be a scientist most fulfulling discovery.

Some intelligent people only believe on things that has a complete study and for them to see is to believe. Some of them. But I knew someone educated that have fear in God. I do fear God and I believe in God. I believe in what stated in the Bible. Maybe they have their own prerogative that is why they don't believe in God.

When someone is so rely on his own way of thinking, only wants to accept what in his mind is rational, then it's rather difficult to believe in God. As God existence is not accepted using human's limited thoughts. There's a verse, trust in the Lord not with your own understanding. God is so undescribable just with human's thoughts or words. Only with the light of Holy Spirit we can believe in God.

I don't the situation abroad, but in China, it's true! I once read a book regarding science history - it's said it's also a new subject abroad - it seems a lot of topping scientists which are founders of many subjects of science. They were/are religious believer of God. And the main purpose they studied these subjects was to honor and glorify God. Now these subjects construct today's science we are learning and studying now. But in China, we have been told that there is no God in world, in another word, the world is pure physical world from primary school. And teachers also tell us believing in God is stupid and superstitious. We have even no chance to learn religions really. So lots of people accepted education, they think only illiteracies and the low-educated believing in God. But I believe in God. Haha

I don't believe in god. That being said, I cannot disprove him so, in a sense, I don't not believe in him either. I like to think I am well educated. To looks for a scientist that believes in god, we need look no further than one of the smartest people to ever exist:Einstein. Albert Einstein, one of the fathers of modern physics, was a firm believer in God.

As far as I know there are believers in God from every level of education, some are scientists, some are doctors and some are teachers. I think there are more believers than nonbelievers in the world.

Those who are educated totally believe in science because science is proved. But one thing about god is that there is no proof of his existence, so those educated do not believe in god due to no proofs of existence.