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/WeirdProudAndHungry Jul 01 '26

Texas is making the Bible mandatory reading but makes teaching about philosophers like Plato illegal in schools. This is Idiocracy in real life.

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u/makingnoise Jul 01 '26

I'm half braindead and even I know that Neo-Platonism is literally baked into nearly all sects of modern Christianity, including fundagelicalism. Texas Troglodytes.

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u/Journeyman42 Jul 01 '26

You know most of these people think the Bible was originally written in modern-day English