(March 5, 2014 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Again, inertia + ignorance. In what you mentioned here, this is deliberate, willful ignorance: you are choosing to read the things you already agree with, so as to help convince yourself that the believe you already hold is correct. If you don't give yourself an option, they you cannot, logically, 'choose' anything.
In a very real sense (sorry, folks) a good number of non-believers are just as guilty of this sort of behaviour. How many times have you run across an atheists who proudly proclaims his/her ignorance of the Bible, or of any other scriptures? People like this haven't made the choice to be an atheist, they are prevent themselves for having to make a choice in the first place.
Are you saying that all atheists should study the Bible? Should they also study the holy books of all the other major religions in the world? What about the minor ones? Who decides which religions' books are major enough to study? How many different religions' holy books did you study in depth before deciding to become an atheist?
That's MISTER Godless Vegetarian Tree Hugging Hippie Liberal to you.
