Some lying idiots say so called
atheists know more about the Bible than believers... that sure isn't evidenced on these blogs.
Poster «ev illusion» writes, «According to a recent PEW survey,
atheists know more than the Christians», Poster «fsm» agreed and wrote, «We know more than the Christians», we were unable to independently verify these claims and are not sure what it is that the
atheists know more of?!?
Yes, Bob, I imagine most
atheists know more about religion and the Bible than you ever will.
Everybody knows the story, and I've seen polls that show most
atheists know more about the Bible than most Christians.
I bet
Atheists know more about the bible then I do.
Atheists know more about the bible than Christians?!
atheists know more about religion for one simple reason: study after study shows that the higher one's IQ, the more likely one is to be atheist.
The reason
atheists know more about the bible than christians is that they have taken the time to learn about it and make a rational decision to not believe it.
They were right,
Atheists know more about religion than believers do.
It is little wonder that
atheists know more than religious people.
If
atheists know more about the bible than most people do, where's the proof?
Unless the atheist studied the bible in college, as a masters degree to prove it, and has been studying the bible ever since, I don't believe
atheists know more.
Your argument that
atheists know more IS an emotional response because you are egoistic and a spoiled brat at heart.
there are exceptions on each side, but generally,
atheists know more about the bible than the chrisitans who say they follow it.
Did yo u know that on everage
atheists know more about bible then religious people, Jews come next... catholics know the least about what is actualy in the bible.
1 — I agree, Christians should spend more time knowing their theology, but saying
an Atheist knows more is ridiculous
Good point about
Atheists knowing more about religion because, in general, we've thought about it, worked though the nonsense we had pushed down our throats and lived to forgive, for the most part the adults in our lives that did their level best to scare us, to scar us as children.
I think the average
atheist knows more about religious doctrine than he does about scientific matters.
The typical
atheist knows more, and has reflected far deeper about religion than «believers».
Im not trying to say that there aren't many Christians that don't know what the bible says or atheists who actually read the bible but it would surprise me if
atheists knew more of the Bible than Christians who were actually Christians.
Not exact matches
I personally hear the
atheists I
know complain
more than the religious people about others talking about their beliefs, could just be the people I
know though.
I can promise you some self - proclaimed «
Atheists» actually love stronger, greater, and
more whole - heartedly than the majority of Christians, Muslims, or Jews that I
know!
I
know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not
atheist) that are far
more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.
The
more you talk to and get to
know atheists, the
more you'll see they're creatures of reason.
Don't worry
atheists, the Big O doesn't
know any
more about the Lord than you do.
You
know folks might take
atheist more serious if they came across as caring adult human beings.
A recent poll / test showed that
atheists and agnostics not only were, on average,
more highly educated, but that they also
know more about the Bible than Christians.
The
atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and
more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never
knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless
You bafoon, a lot of
atheists here
know more about Christianity than you do and were once Christians.
The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an
atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot
more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every
atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless
According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian
no less)
atheists number
more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic /
atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «
atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves
atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts
more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.
One
more thing, I am an
atheist and I
know exactly why I am here and what purpose drives my life.
Every debate Craig has had with an
atheist «philosopher» or «thinker» has looked
more like a learned professor trying mightily to explain basic arguments to a freshman with ADD... you
know, the kind the sits in the back and only raises their hand to drop a line they remember from last night's Jon Stewart show?
It's very tough to go around sanctimoniously decreeing that we
know the absolute, objective Truth of things, and that all others have it wrong; while I agree with you that some of the
atheist posters here might be overly confident, I think you'd also deal with a little
more humility.
Actually it's «I
know more than they do because I took the time to do my homework on the matter =
atheist»
Most agnostics and
atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and
more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was
no more valid than worshiping any other god.
How funny to see
atheists come on any religous articles claiming they
know more about God than we, who
knows God.
WE all
know that ideas and truth mean
more to
Atheists than to religious people (who are happy with fairytales).
I think most
atheists would admit they consider themselves what is
more commonly being
known as agnostic
atheists.
I'm not necessarily claiming that Christianity is wonderful (I'm an
atheist), but that Christianity as it is
known and experienced today is much, much
more mellow an ideology both in theory and practice than Islam.
I didn't
know other
Atheist were in my community, but the
more I talked about it and researched it the
more I realized there are much
more of us out here than I thought,
more than the 3 - 4 % I am sure of it.
It seems that
atheists almost always
know more about the bible than the bible believers..
I don't
know what's
more amusing, your assumptions about all
atheists, or your attempt to quote a book they don't believe in to make your point.
Third, I most
atheists I
know (and I
know a lot
more than 59) fit in at least 4 or 5 of these categories and some fit all six.
I don't
know if
atheists have
more or less flaws than Christians.
Atheists, like me, are fed up with the concept that religion MUST be respected,
no matter what, simply because it is typically falsely perceived as being wholly benevolent, when in truth it divides people
more than unites them.
If you need proof that atheism is becoming ever
more evangelistic, look
no further than Peter Boghossian's book A Manual for Creating
Atheists.
In order to truly
know that there is no God, or believe it as true (as vehemently as some
Atheists do, verily defining a religion of its own), an
Atheist has to
know a lot
more than all of the rest of us on this world.
nothing makes the
atheist more ticked off
more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not
know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.
They don't expect
atheists to
know more about the bible than they do.