Santorum - Rightwing evangelicalism is the founding of our country

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Yet, part of me wishes what Santorum claimed about college was absolutely 100% true. It would be great if an institution so quickly switched ones belief from superstitious to reality affirming. Sadly, I dont have as much faith in the colleges to do so like santorum does.

The thing that really makes a difference is rational debate. If you can talk calmly with an intelligent Christian and you understand the basis of his religion, you can fairly easily get him to understand the flaws in his indoctrination. That is why Christian forums and churches will not allow open debate. If they did allow it there would be very few intelligent Christians.

Before you make the obvious joke, yes, there are plenty of intelligent Christians out there but few of them actually think that the bible is the inspired word of god, they just have an instinctive belief. That is absolutely fine by me, it's the ones who think that they know exactly what god wants them to do who are the problem Christians or Muslims or Jews etc.

Fundamentalist Christian forums exist. What I personally have not found are any churches that allow intellectual discussion of religion particularly that which involves doctrine or things that are controversial to Christian doctrine (like whether Jesus ever existed). Intellectuals live a lonely existence in the Fundy churches. Fundy Bible studies are little more than the same old doctrine with a different speaker. Sometimes they will add in Church approved additions to doctrine like Church approved beliefs of gender rolls (things like all women are ruled by their hormones, are susceptible to deception etc).