(November 29, 2009 at 11:26 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: You said that christianity explicitly requires belief to understand it.
Ah the king of misquotes returns!

Clearly you grossly misunderstand Christianity. Reason is central. You're making the classic faux pa of requiring scientific understanding using what is possibly the extreme opposite as your tool for doing so... faith. You further compound your appearance of ignorance by dismissing faith so easily.
I agree that Christianity can be studied as a cultural phenomenon.