Adoring Skeptics

[FadingW]

All evangelical religions desire skepticism in unbelievers because there is little chance of converting someone who has absolute faith in their beliefs.

A person must examine their beliefs and, through some measure of skepticism, drop them in return for another set of beliefs in order to convert.

If skepticism should serve someone well enough to convert, why is it disregarded and demeaned after converting?

[Minimalist]

This is why.

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
-- H L Mencken

Skepticism is only tolerated so far and then it becomes a problem for the new set of quacks.

[reverendjeremiah]

Because the faithful will stoop as low as to accept any conversion, even murderers such as Charles Manson. You play too much into speciifcs. The faithful will do anything they can to gain a conversion

[Emanuel]

It is wrong to do so. It is good to make questions.

[Arcturus]

Well, all I know is that most theists are skeptics of skepticism, where they accept ideas without evidence, whilst rejecting ideas with evidence. The very opposite of open-mindedness imo...