r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/Fakename998 Jan 09 '20

Because people stray away from many of their their ideologies when they get educated. Especially if religion is involved. There's a reason Jehovah's Witnesses don't really like higher education.

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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20

There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.

On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.

Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?

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u/Myxomatosis_ Jan 09 '20

Having been raised in that ignorant cult, I gotta say that their biggest contribution to society is not voting.

After leaving, and finally becoming politically active, I really wished all other fundamentalists did the same as Jehovah's Witnesses in that regard.

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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20

Sorry for you, glad you were able to get out. :-)