(November 20, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I finding out that Genesis isn't literally true is all it takes to shake a persons faith then it's a wonder a stiff breeze hadn't turned them into gnostic atheists by now. No one has an internal crisis over whether or not a fox and a hound dog were ever bffs.....
Imagine the indoctrination HisMajesty went through, and imagine that HisMajesty was capable of being reached...it's not the fact of evolution itself that would shake him up, it's the realization that the Bible isn't literally true. Fundamentalist literalism is rigid, and that makes it brittle.
My sample size may be skewed, but I've often noted in my freethought group how many of the ex-Christians are ex-fundamentalists.
Of course, my fundamentalism was broken by reading the Bible cover-to-cover twice, in two different translations. I remained an agnostic theist, and finding out evolution is probably true didn't shake that, it just reminded me that my Pentecostal pastors hardly ever said anything that was actually true.
However, I freely acknowledge that I may have been extra open to changing my mind in the face of evidence due to my sterling personal qualites.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.