Comment Re:ERROR CODE: ID10T (Score 1) 216
As a rule I don't reply to anons, but you seem both sincere and intelligent so I'll make an exception.
I didn't, and wouldn't, say that all atheists are ignorant of religion. I have atheist friends who are quite conversant in various religions from around the world. I think your experience is a bit skewed if it is really true that more atheists you know have read the Bible than religious (I assume you mean Christian) people, but I'll certainly allow that it could be an unusual but accurate assessment of people around you (then again, maybe you don't know many religious people well enough to make that statement?).
I'm certainly not qualified to make in-depth theological critiques of all of the world's religions, but I have a masters degree in theology and have a certain level and depth of knowledge--enough to know that the typical /. picture of all religious people as blithering idiots unacquainted with rational thought is ridiculous, and is rooted mainly in a complete failure to even attempt to fairly understand what one would critique.
And yes, there have been some great and difficult questions posed by atheists (including my atheist friends and colleagues) that should be taken seriously. If, however, the same consideration is not reciprocated, any semblance of a higher moral ground disappears pretty quickly--e.g., "sky wizard" and flat earth comments, which have manifestly failed to engage with actual (and ancient) Christian teaching and belief. By all means ask hard questions, but do so perhaps a bit less disingenuously.
I didn't, and wouldn't, say that all atheists are ignorant of religion. I have atheist friends who are quite conversant in various religions from around the world. I think your experience is a bit skewed if it is really true that more atheists you know have read the Bible than religious (I assume you mean Christian) people, but I'll certainly allow that it could be an unusual but accurate assessment of people around you (then again, maybe you don't know many religious people well enough to make that statement?).
I'm certainly not qualified to make in-depth theological critiques of all of the world's religions, but I have a masters degree in theology and have a certain level and depth of knowledge--enough to know that the typical
And yes, there have been some great and difficult questions posed by atheists (including my atheist friends and colleagues) that should be taken seriously. If, however, the same consideration is not reciprocated, any semblance of a higher moral ground disappears pretty quickly--e.g., "sky wizard" and flat earth comments, which have manifestly failed to engage with actual (and ancient) Christian teaching and belief. By all means ask hard questions, but do so perhaps a bit less disingenuously.
