(April 27, 2017 at 9:30 am)SteveII Wrote:(April 27, 2017 at 8:05 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Riiight. I bet most of the atheists here were raised christian. Just because you're satisfied with any answer that supports your bias doesn't mean they actually answer the questions. You're like Trekkies arguing about discrepancies in the Star Trek Universe.
Don't confuse being 'raised Christian' as knowing anything about doctrine. If anything, your example of the atheists here prove that daily.
Makes you wonder though. If "most of the atheists here were raised christian" obviously rejected Christianity, what did they actually reject if most can't even articulate the key doctrines correctly.
Could a similar observation be made about the theist members here in regards to their knowledge of atheism/agnosticism? How many times have theists made statements about atheism/agnosticism that were based on misconceptions or misunderstandings of what theists thought those terms meant? Hence, is it a tendency of any in-group to assume that it accurately understands the out-group without actually testing that understanding first hand?
