I guess PHC won't have as much business if parents aren't driven by fear that little Johnny and Susie will quite possibly burn in hell if they attend a godless secular university. They should get to work spinning this, somehow.Percent of Young Adults Reporting Religious Declines, by Level of Education
Educational Attainment
Decline in Attending Services
Decline in Importance of Religion
Disaffiliation From Religion
Didn’t attend college
76.2%
23.7%
20.3%
Attended, but earned no degree
71.5%
16.3%
14.6%
Earned associate degree
60.3%
15.1%
14.4%
Earned at least a bachelor’s degree
59.2%
15.0%
15.0%
So with all the talk about supposedly liberal, anti-religious professors, why do the young adults who don’t go to college suffer more of a religious loss?
Regnerus said that what the study suggests — and his personal experience confirms — is that while there are plenty of non-religious professors around, they aren’t trying to discourage any students from practicing their faith. “Of course there are some who are hostile to religion. But they don’t teach that. They teach their discipline,” Regnerus said. The attitude, he added, is: “Whatever I think about evangelicals, when I go to teach quantum physics, I teach quantum physics.”
Well, at least liberalism is still alive and well at college, and that's enough, [they hope] right?
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