With Obama's signature, U.S. religious freedom law now protects atheists

Eh, this is a nuance that I feel I should address even though it feels like nitpicking: atheists are [i]more likely to be educated[/i]. This means that if you compare them statistically, you will find a much higher rate of atheists with bachelors, masters, and doctorates. This rate even increases for masters and PhDs, atheists are much, much more likely to pursue post-grad education, I'm fumbling for the exact ratio but it's something like 1.5:1. For every 100 Christians continuing past a bachelors, there's 150 atheists. My own personal hunch is that atheists are less likely to buy into the undercurrent of anti-intellectualism you see in the American workforce, so they're perfectly fine with being egghead nerds studying God-knows-what for the sake of studying it, instead of pursuing a degree to work in business management or HR as a means of socioeconomic advancement. I have absolutely no data to truly back that up. I've avoided sourcing or referencing this whole time because I did all this research years ago and I don't really give a shit whether you believe me or don't. You can look it up or call me a liar. Either way I'm fine. "If you look at the world at large." Nowhere in my comment did I address anything except discrimination in the US. I did barely any research about this subject on an international scale.

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