"People were more religious before education became compulsory" according to a Notre Dame

[AlinPA]

researcher. The GOP's anti-education/anti-science stance is probably tied to this.
There is a link to a PDF file below.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/people-were-more-religious-before-education-became-compulsory/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29

[hobbit709]

1. Keep them ignorant and don't teach critical thinking is how you get religious.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. It's funny what happens when you replace superstition with facts and knowledge.

It's easier to control the masses when they are ignorant and fearful.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Uh, yes.

[cantbeserious]

3. As George Carlin Said - The Owners Of America Don't Want Educated Workers

They want workers just smart enough to run the machines and fill out the paperwork,
And just dumb enough to sit around the kitchen table not realizing how they have been screwed.

This creates ripe minds for the evils of religion to sprout and fester.

[snooper2]

4. we will just put this in the no shit category

[LWolf]

6. Hmm...

No power holders want a well-educated general population.

Which is why, today, public education is on her last legs, devastated by decades of increasingly brutal attacks.

Many of which have been promoted by Democrats.