Athiests are more likely to know religion than people who are religious.
In many places, it is much easier to conform to the local dogma. An athiest generally has to convince himself to reject it.
@BobCollins @karelbrits ah but which way around does that go?
Did they become atheist and then study the good books to reject the dogma?
Or did they finally get around to reading the good books of the religion they’d been brought up in, and became atheist because it was all clearly bollocks?
My path included taking a university class on a "literary study of the bible." We read a discussed virtually the whole collection of books. There was no discussion of religion allowed in the class.
In the years afterwards, I kept noticing that religous people were misquoting, misunderstanding, inventing, cherry-picking, etc. the books I had read.
@karelbrits even if yo b my a u still d me
Got no kiddz, sry. But did mr. Cheezuz have?