General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: You Can't Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)but to follow the authority of their religious leaders first, "Christian" secular leaders next. Women in particular are told they cannot possibly decide things for themselves.
And they're quite comfortable with that state of affairs.
The reason religious people so mistrust secular universities and colleges is that in those institutions young people are taught to look at evidence and information and come to their own conclusions about stuff. And those conclusions are usually far apart from what their religion has said all those years. Even public elementary schools open up children to a wider world than what they experience at home and in their church, and so are seen as dangerous by the most narrow minded afraid of truth people, hence home schooling.
On top of that, they sincerely believe that those who don't believe exactly as they do aren't worth caring about.