On 7/22/2010 9:32 AM, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson<nos### [at] nospamcom>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:10:04 -0400, John VanSickle wrote:
>
>>>>    Another curious things is that many creationists seem to think that
>>>>    they
>>>> know what "evolution" is better than evolutionists themselves.
>>>
>>> Which is the flip side of atheists who claim to know more about
>>> theological topics than believers do.
>
>> Well, not really; a fair number of the creationists reject scientific
>> principles.  Atheists tend to know a lot more about theistic religions
>> than those who practice them, IME, because they've often been raised in
>> one and then decided it's pants after years of careful study and
>> questioning - questioning that *often* is answered with "don't ask those
>> kinds of questions!"
>
>    There are certainly tons of atheists (a term which I'm using in a very
> broad sense here) who have all kinds of misconceptions about the Bible and
> the christian dogma, and which are quite easy to prove wrong, and which,
> basically, make themselves as foolish with their misconceptions as many
> creationists with their misconceptions about science.
>
Willing to bet that most of those "misconceptions" are nothing of the 
sort, but rather preconceptions, arising out of their own experience 
with believers, including those they grew up with, who actually 
***did*** think those things where in the Bible. Oh, and then there is 
all the stuff that is correct vis a vie the Bible, if you read it "in 
context", or "literally", or "in terms of the time period and beliefs 
common then", but bare no resemblance **at all** to the cherry picked, 
ultra-liberal (but don't dare say that in some circles), white washed 
version that many modern Christians "think" their Bible has in it, on 
the basis of sermons that, if they are lucky, contain less than 10% of 
the total contents, while the other 90% is quietly classed as, "Not 
relevant to anything I ever preach about", and swept under the nearest 
alter cloth.

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