(April 27, 2017 at 10:25 am)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote:(April 27, 2017 at 9:30 am)SteveII Wrote: 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?
I suppose. But atheism has no doctrines to learn that I can misunderstand.
