What is sometimes missed is that there are many athiests and agnostics who, at one time, had speant years or (in my case) decades in learning about one or more dogmas. But after all of that had been discussed, one certainly has the right to do as Paul did and say (paraphrasing and replacing "Christ" with "Athiesm"):
So the discarding of a myth does not mean that one has no education in it. And, once discardrd, one should not expect such a person to continue to embrace such studies.
And there are those of us who do so, not out of a religious requirement or conviction, but out of intellectual enjoyment. While others find enjoyment elsewhere. But it is a mistake for a believer to automatically hold that a non-bliever knows less. In a recent Pew Poll in the USA, it was shown that Athiests scored higher in understanding Scripture better than Believers. One pastor propsed that it is because they have to respond to believers, so they study harder. I would suggets it is because they DID study hard, they became non-blievers, and that learning showed.
Quote:And all of these things, these commandments of God, I needed to treat as dung, in order to accept Athiesm
So the discarding of a myth does not mean that one has no education in it. And, once discardrd, one should not expect such a person to continue to embrace such studies.
And there are those of us who do so, not out of a religious requirement or conviction, but out of intellectual enjoyment. While others find enjoyment elsewhere. But it is a mistake for a believer to automatically hold that a non-bliever knows less. In a recent Pew Poll in the USA, it was shown that Athiests scored higher in understanding Scripture better than Believers. One pastor propsed that it is because they have to respond to believers, so they study harder. I would suggets it is because they DID study hard, they became non-blievers, and that learning showed.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
