LordReed: All through history religion and education have many times been at logger heads but in this day and age with technology breaking all the traditional borders religion is very much less of a hindrance. If any religion still poses a hindrance to education it is usually in places where access to information is limited.

PAGAN9JA: christianity- past yes
now-no

islam- past and now- focus more on madrassah (religious education)
in poorer /backward muslim countries this is the only form of education young muslims receive.


For example in countries like India, the muslims are much backward than the Hindus because the Hindus were quick and open to receive european education . (though unlike foolish Nigerians, they didnt overdo it and throw away their religion, names and culture).


Traditional Religions : Dont interfere on educational or any other human matters.

onetrack: To borrow from Richard Dawkins, religion teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world. This has not been universally true but in many cases people have used religion to stop people from asking too many questions.

Fulaman198:

I don't agree with your assertion of Islam in the past and present. Some of the most brilliant scholars were Muslims especially those that developed the form of mathematics known as Algebra today. Algebraic equations were done by Muslim scholars. Today, it depends on which country you live in. In Nigeria, what you say holds true. In the UAE, it doesn't

Illuminatus: I don't know for certain about Islam and how open it is (seeing as I have heard from various sources that it is against Western Education), but Christianity is quite open and definitely promotes education (except some parts). As long as your field of study isn't Astronomy or other disciplines that come against Christian beliefs (Galileo comes to mind here), Christianity is quite open and to level, encourages it.
But education does hold people back from religion. The more enlightened someone becomes, the less intriguing and interesting religion becomes. I think this is the reason for the myth that educated people aren't religious. Enlightenment gotten from education (reading other people's ideas, experiences and scientific facts) exposes some facts and poses some questions that religious people and religion can't answer...

nora544:

Sorry that is not tru, the catholic church make very much for the education, the monastery was the center of the education for a very long time and also astronomie.
There are many old Universities in europa who are build from the catholic church.

When you see how many old books the monasteries have here in europa you will look and so many are very old and where written by the hand of monks.

Illuminatus:
I didn't say that the church is totally against education. It just doesn't like it when education raises answers that threaten it.

Apatheist: Objectively speaking, it depends.
At the advent of Islam, Arabic scientists were perhaps the best in the world. There were lots of Arabs that were skeptics (atheist ) See the Islamic Golden Age.
The same with Christianity. Under the aegis of the Catholic Church, catholic priests and monks were very educated, and were bastions of knowledge. The Catholic Church built schools, hospitals, etc. During the height of the Roman Empire.
Jesuit priests are very good.

Illuminatus:
The more enlightened someone becomes, the less intriguing and interesting religion becomes. I think this is the reason for the myth that educated people aren't religious. Enlightenment gotten from education (reading other people's ideas, experiences and scientific facts) exposes some facts and poses some questions that religious people and religion can't answer...

tpia1:

where are you getting all this from?

sounds like your imagination.

only someone whose religious beliefs were weak to begin with, would engage in all that.

plaetton:

I cannot say about Islam, but the fact that Christian monks and priests were educated does not properly address the issue.

Monks and priests were educated so that they became the previleged class to lord over the uneducated masses. Their education gave them a hegemony of knowledge and control in areas of life.
Therefore, education for the masses had always been a threat to the hegemonic power and control of the priestly class.
It was therefore important to prevent, discourage, or at the least, censor what the uneducated masses were being exposed to.

The word "Heresy" was widely to labelled and condemn any type of education or knowledge that was seen as a threat to the ecclesiastical agenda of the Church.

Apatheist:
The priests and monks were very educated,yet they believed foolish things like the earth was round,because the bible said so.
I was trying to show that science and religion could co-exists.

1ord: No they believed it was flat the bible even says so. Hence they tried to submerge research and discredit the belief it was round threatning astronomers with heresies and other backwards bull.shi.t. Truth be told Christianity has been one of the most oppressive religions. They committed lots of extra judicial killings in the name of God oppressed scientific research and medicine in the name of heresy and killed anyone who didn't oblige. That is why Illuminati came about. It was established by free thinkers so they could practice and research facts and share their discoveries in secrecy hidden from the persecutions of the catholic church.The Illuminati means the enlightened ones

Dragonking: Go to the north alone..you will see several Islamic scholars scattered everywhere yet they refuse to go to school..The FG even lowered the cut off marks for some exams held there to about 4marks out of 100marks yet they still find it difficult to make the score.

Come to the south that claims they have knowledge yet their pastor is the one doing the thinking for them.

So the answer is yes..religion hinders people especially Nigerians from being educated and having logical reasoning.

CAMNEWTON4PRES: Yes

For Islam & Christianity (Protestantism)

And No for Catholicism

Fulaman198:

Why isn't Catholicism included? It has notoriety for making males become gay (no offence to gay people I have no enmity towards you.)

CAMNEWTON4PRES:



Making people become gay while condemning it ? Never heard about that
well because Most Catholics are very well educated, the catholic church is worldwide known for her efforts to provide great education through her numerous
schools and universities
+ if what you said was true the +2b catholics would all b gays

Fulaman198:

Seriously man you never heard about all these clerics partaking in homosexual acts?

Macelliot:
Delusional.....
Just the bad ones among them and they are all from Europe alone... They were prohibited from getting married nor were they allowed to have sex, so it isn't an easy task to remain single till death.
There are more than 12,000 priests in Nigeria alone with more than 100,000 in Africa and no case of homosexual was recorded among them, but only in Europe...
Get the fact!