Religion & Law

Someone (probably G.K. Chesteron) once said (something like) "what happens when people stop believing in God is not that they believe nothing, but that they'll believe anything."  So it seems:

. . . [W]hile increased church attendance and membership in a conservative denomination has a powerful negative effect on paranormal beliefs, higher education doesn't. Two years ago two professors published another study in Skeptical Inquirer showing that, while less than one-quarter of college freshmen surveyed expressed a general belief in such superstitions as ghosts, psychic healing, haunted houses, demonic possession, clairvoyance and witches, the figure jumped to 31% of college seniors and 34% of graduate students. . . .