(March 6, 2012 at 11:28 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Why do Christians think we need to ask them questions? Hell I used to be a Christian for the first 30 years of my life, atheist for the past 10. I know plenty about Christianity, and in fact I think I learned more since being an atheist than when I was an unquestioning, blindly-believing Christian.
They think we need to as them questions because most of them are convinced we are atheists only because we don't know enough about christianity. However, the opposite is usually true - atheists know more about christianty than most christians. I would go so far as to say that a higher percentage of atheists have read the entire Bible than christians have.
Like you, DT, I am a former christian. I know more about christianity than I want to know. But, if I don't know something, I probably know someone who does or I already know where to look for it.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
