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To: Neocon who wrote (45853)	3/29/2002 6:17:33 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I don't know of any demographic studies of secularists... But I would bet that they would show that the 14% group of professed atheists and agnostics are heavily skewed to the more educated and (presumably) more intelligent. I would guess that among university faculty, for example, the ratio would would be much higher than 14 percent. I think peer pressure and PC are part of the explanation. I believe that psychology provides an equally important explanation. Highly intelligent people tend to have very strong ego drives. Belief in a deity requires submission of the ego to the concept a higher being. That is about as simple as it gets.

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