Why people afraid to ask questions about their beliefs?

[Cecelia]

I think it's because most people don't actually read the bible. I mean growing up I never really thought much about the logistics of Noah's Ark because I just got the bare details: Noah built an ark. He put two of each animal inside. Then it rained for forty days and forty nights. That's all I knew as a kid.

"How could he fit all the animals on the ark?" wasn't a question, because I had no idea that the bible said how big the ark was. Nor did I know how high the waters were supposed to be. I never really thought about it.

The only questions I had as a kid were: "What came before God?" My father told me that God only knows, while my priest told me that nothing came before god. (This was pretty confusing to an 8 year old)

I think the devil is in the details. How many details do you really pay attention to? You get the basics, and usually that's enough. Throw in details, and then it becomes really confusing. As a kid the details don't matter. You aren't studying religion like you do social studies or math. You usually sit in church for an hour, and listen. Or you have stories read to you. Or in some cases you have cassettes that tell the story to you. And as a kid, you have these figures that seem authoritative, so you don't ask questions.

[robvalue]

Yup, I would guess 20% of Christians at most have actually read the bible front to finish.

That doesn't show a lot of faith that it's divinely inspired, does it? Imagine if you suddenly had a book, and you truly believed it was written (or inspired by) a being external to this reality. Would it be on the shelf gathering dust? Would you just look at snippets here and there? Or would you be all over it like a nob rash?