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Church-going teens graduate and attend college more, BYU-Rice study shows

Churchgoing teens are 40 percent more likely to graduate from high school and 70 percent more likely to enroll in college, according to a new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Church attendance, as well as any religious affiliation, boosts academic advancement, according to the study from sociologists at Brigham Young University and Rice University.

Teens who identified as Mormon or Jewish had the greatest odds of graduating from high school and enrolling in college, based on data gathered for the study from more than 8,000 teens from all over the nation. ...

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11/7/12 4:14 PM

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but do they get jobs after that or just lots of debt?

11/7/12 2:38 PM

Jim Lincoln

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1 Corinthians 1:17-29

and I can add when it comes to Mormons no matter how much education they may have,

Romans 1
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.---NASB

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