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I can't believe we've only been looking at intelligence as the correlation between theism and education. What about morality. Do the statistics suggest that African Americans have, on average, a higher moral integrity than Caucasians?
Didn't think so.
The statistics aren't very useful because they are oversimplistic. As has been mentioned previously, we cannot bring about any satisfying conclusion based on them, especially not for our purposes here. The most we can agree on is perhaps a commentary on the status of religious membership by race within America. Not much else can be taken from that; certainly not a reading as deep as: African Americans erroneously believe in God because they are poor and uneducated.
The problem with generalizations is that, on their own, they are possibly as rooted in faith as a dogmatic belief in God.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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