I’m with lookoutbelow. Can’t be true. Otherwise, the Reds in Mississippi and such states would not vote religious tickets. Raleigh/Durham in NC has a high concentration of college graduates and they vote Blue. The rest of the state, with a lower concentration of college grads, is Red.

True story. My good friend is a PhD student at a very expensive private university in NYC. His father is a pastor in a modest community. My friend tells me that their lives were lies. Their family is very repressed and miserable but they have to put up a facade of perfection. He felt miserable at home but could never talk to his parents. He now hates religion and wants nothing to do with it. Well, I told him to be grateful because without religion, he wouldn’t be getting his education. Studying and living in Manhattan costs $100k++/year. Multiply that by 7 to 10 years. It’s all paid for by his father’s ministry “business.”

I think that the customers of religion are like home-buyers. The difference is that they always buy high.