The latter can have their bible bullshit which qualifies them to work minimum wage jobs at Wal-Marts and Burger Kings, while the educated folk can have their good jobs that require knowledge and analytical skills.
What is wrong with that?
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Your question has an unfortunate, bait-ish quality to it (it appears you are once again, like Michael P, crossing swords with supposed lefty obsessions -- in this case, properly educating all of, as you often write, 'da people' -- that inhibit clarity as you define it) so I'll let it pass.
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Surely Wojtek, you've lived in the US long enough to note that people with zero technical skills (from a science, engineering or even basic logic POV) can often achieve tremendous amounts of power and influence.
For example, the 'born again' real estate tycoon of Anytown USA who runs for Congress and, upon ascension to Washington, adds her voice to the modern primitive chorus.
This fairly common event provides one reason to oppose the triumph of myth as official policy and education curricula guide at local and national levels.
Also, there are plenty of "educated folk" who are quite strong believers -- as K. has pointed out numerous times with her anecdotes about Floridian 'jus Christians' with middle and upper middle class situations.
There isn't a great chasm separating the 'uneducated' believer from the erudite non-believer as you seem to think. In fact, no such crude division exists at all in the U.S.
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