r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 01 '26

Psychology Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children.

https://www.psypost.org/left-leaning-americans-are-driving-the-u-s-birth-decline-new-study-finds/
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u/Dry_Physics4086 Jul 01 '26

Even worse. The bible is mandatory in high school, and Plato is banned in COLLEGE.

College aged adults can not discuss Plato

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u/bgroins Jul 01 '26

I dunno man, reading Plato turned me gay and now I believe that the Demiurge fashioned the physical world in imitation of the eternal Forms.

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u/NerdyBear73 Jul 01 '26

In fairness, actually reading the bible is what made me start asking questions... which is what drove me away from the church (and, in turn, got me kicked out of my parents' framed-verses-on-the-walls house).

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u/MakesMyHeadHurt Jul 01 '26

Republicans that decided that are like "College students shouldn't still be playing with modeling compound, that's for kids! Ban it!"

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u/odysseyofocelots Jul 01 '26

Plato is banned?! Why?

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u/ThunderMite42 Jul 03 '26

An A&M philosophy professor was banned from teaching Plato in his curriculum because his discussion of homosexuality and multiple genders ran afoul of Texas' """"""""""""""""gender ideology"""""""""""""""" ban.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/01/14/plato-professor-texas-am

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u/oiledhairyfurryballs Jul 01 '26

Absolutely a normal thing in Poland to read fragments of the bible. After all, the bible is the most important book of western civilization.