Ryan Burge

Like people realize that going to church does all kinds of good things for them outside of just saving their soul from eternal damnation.

Right.

It allows them to make friends.

It allows them to find a partner like we talked about.

It also allows them to I need a veterinarian.

I need a dentist.

Oh, hey, you know, Dr. So-and-so sits in the pew, too, behind you.

Just go talk to him.

It creates this social connection.

I think educated people, they don't realize this, like they don't vocalize this and it never clicks in their head of why they're doing these things.

But what we see over and over again is that dropping out begets dropping out.

So dropping out of religion, like the nothing in particular group we're talking about, they're the very lowest level of educational attainment.

Only 25% of them have four-year college degrees.

So they're dropping out of education, they're dropping out of religion, and they're dropping out of politics.

So they're basically isolating themselves from American society.

And I think education, social trust, institutional trust are all sort of locked together in this matrix of things that make you either more willing to engage in polite society or less willing to engage in polite society.

Educated people have a level of trust that less educated people do not.

If you want to know who goes to church, it's educated people who have middle class incomes are married with children.

That is the the golden path we talk about.

Right.