[2024.09.24-20 (originally labelled 24Sep#20)]
I wanna go back to this one for a sec. We all know Moviebob can neither math nor brain, and I can confirm that further.
Let's assume that children are going to school during a standard Monday-through-Friday, September-to-June schedule, which lasts approximately forty weeks (or 200 days). We subtract Labor Day (1 day without school), Columbus Day (2), Veterans' Day (3), Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday (5), two weeks for Christmas and New Year's (15), President's Day (16), Easter/Spring Break (21), and Memorial Day (22). You have 178 days of school, which usually lasts from 9:00am to 3:00pm with about 1.5 hours' worth of break time each day (for lunch and recess).
In the United States, we have kindergarten, elementary school (1st through 6th grades),1 and high school (7th through 12th grades). Not including preschool, that's 13 years' worth of education.
13 years x 178 days x 4.5 hours equals approximately 10,413 hours spent on one's education during a lifetime. This does not include time spent in college and/or trade school.
At a bare minimum, engaging in church activities usually lasts between 1 and 1.5 hours per week. Attending church 1.5 hours for 52 weeks factors out to 78 hours per year. The projected average life span for a U.S. citizen is 75 years, and many who regularly engage in religious fellowships only start doing so no earlier than their teenage years. We're looking at about 60-ish years' worth of time at church.
60 years x 78 hours equals 4,680 hours of church per lifetime.
Education divided by religion:
10,413 / 4,680 = approx. 2.225.
Sorry, Bob, but for every hour religious Americans spend in church, they spend nearly 75 minutes more in school.