[BwanaNdege]

Covering their bets?

[exDemMom]

It seems that the author of this article assumes that all scientists are atheists. It’s a huge assumption for which there is little evidence. I guess it never occurred to him that scientists might actually choose to go to church because they’re religious.

[jjotto]

This story has been around about a year. Long enough for attempts at debunking the researchers’ assumptions.

Given the background of “natural and social scientists at elite American universities,” I’d guess a large percent of these ‘atheists’ would be Jews, for whom ethnicity is intermixed with religion.

And would a scientist taking family to a Unitarian church even count? Not exactly the image some might have of traditional Catholicism or Evangelical Protestantism.

Nice notes from one of the researchers:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-howard-ecklund-phd/some-atheist-scientists-w_b_1133958.html

[svcw]

uh, They take their children to church because they are terrified they are wrong about the non existence of God Almighty.

[cport]

Moral upbringing without true authority is meaningless, and ends up becoming diluted with moral relativity. Eventually, without natural truth and the Savior to tie it to, it devolves into humanism.

[hosepipe]

Marx, Mao, Che Guevara and Dawkins do not lead to Morality..
Neither does a boatload of liberal christian teachers..

Granting “license” to your children will do nothing but ruin them..
And being Jewish does not require you to believe anything..
You are a Jew because your mother was a Jew..

[Cronos]

As humans we need religion -- we need to believe in a higher power than ourselves. Some replace religion with nationalism, race-glorification, etc. others with shopping.

The scientists recognize the reality about people

[left that other site]

I have clients who are Jewish by Heritage, Buddhist by Beliefs, and send their children to a Hebrew Orthodox private school.

(At home, they burn incense and candles to statues of the Buddha, as their children learn Torah at school.)

Of course, they also voted for Obama, even as their beautiful children are being taught Israeli songs and dances and learning Hebrew for their Bat/Bar Mitzvahs.

And they think I’M (Evangelical/Charismatic/Conservative/Zionist/FReeper/Biker/Musician) the “mixed-up” one! LOL

The world is upside-down.