When we atheists tell you fundiots that
we know more about your religion (and bible) than you do, we are not making this up.
The point of my post was not to argue the semantics of his name, just to point out that you're dumb for trying to correct people and act like you are smarter,
know more about their religion, and hence you're correct on all your points.
Studies have repeatedly shown that atheists usually
know more about religion than religious people.
I'm sure
I know more about both religion and science than you will ever know in this lifetime, or in the life to come.
Yes, Bob, I imagine most atheists
know more about religion and the Bible than you ever will.
Atheists, as a general rule,
know more about religion than their religious counterparts.
First, I don't find that atheists tend to
know more about religion, be it Christianity or any other.
But yes,
we know more about religion because we don't close our mind to other religions for fear of being prosyletized.
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.
I guess i shouldn't be surprised, I have never known an Atheist that didn't
know more about religion than a theist.
The damned
know more about the religion of the saved..
They were right, Atheists
know more about religion than believers do.
Why should the majority of Americans
know any more about religion than they seem to know about anything else?
You merely don't want non-believers to
know more about your religion than you do, many of them used to be priests and left because they knew more about religion.
of course
we know more about religion.
Also, when
you know more about religion, it just doesn't make any sense to attribute to a divine being what is clearly created by humans... just try explaining to someone who believes the Bible is the literal word of god about the council of Nicaea.
I hate religion and reason why is b / c
I know more about religion than the avg person.
I find that atheists tend to
know more about religion than most believers — or at least that is true of Christians in the US.
I don't
know more about YOUR religion than you do.
How can any outsider
know more about a religion than an insider?
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.
Who
knows more about religion - the arch-atheist Christopher Hitchens or Islam basher Rev. Franklin Graham?
Another thing is that atheists on average
know more about religions than believers do.
Not exact matches
That being said, If others
knew what SDA's thought
about the Catholic
religion there would be a lot
more screaming.
Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies,
know more about world
religion than you do and the rest of your flock?
In my case since I am not Christian it is even
more important that my children learn
about their
religion from somebody who actually
knows and understands their
religion.
If you want to learn
more about Islam visit your local masjid... step outside your normal circle of friends... chance is you probably already
know a Muslim he is just not throwing his
religion down your throat (see my first sentences for the reasons why)
Your beliefs
about god are
no more real than your silly contention that gays are intent on driving
religion out of the US.
But until you do that, your
religion will only drive people away and create
more divide
no matter how loud you declare Christianity is all
about love.
Dude, you are WAY out of your element, having read the bible, a couple of times I might add, I can assure you that I
know probably
about as much
about your
religion as you do and quite a bit
more about the many
religions out there apart from christianity.
Just what is
known about this
religion (occult) is bizarre and disturbing who
knows what goes on with their «Secret Ritual» in their «Sacred Temples» Bringum young's public writings were racist philosophy
more then
religion who
knows what Mitt may have learned at his University of «Higher Learning»
its not really atheism or
religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking
about, you assume to
know what something is
about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act
no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot
more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its
about being aware of who you are?
Many people place man at a higher plateau in knowledge as we learn
more and
more about our universe through science, and yet our predecessors
knew enough to not throw out their
religion just because their knowledge grew in scientific matters.
Someone who has made a study of
religion and teaches them may
know far
more than you do
about Christianity.
also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend it
more than any other
religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't
know much
about them other than H0llyw00d myths.
In doing so, we will be
no more guilty of indoctrination than the parents who let their kids «make up» their own minds
about religion, because all reason is tradition - based.
a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized
religions are
no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver
about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)
The
more you
know about science today and the
religions of the ancient world, the less it is possible to believe what you were taught as a child, even if you wanted to.
Mohamed did not miracles... that's stuff added to the muslim
religion... ya need to
know more about Islam..
Most Christians I
know care
more about a person's qualifications than what
religion they practice or what color their skin is - These Christians are against such ignorant bigotry!!!
It's widely acknowledged and understood that athiests / agnostics
know more about the world's
religions than the religious.
The single strongest factor predicting how well a person does on the religious knowledge quiz is education - the
more years of schooling a person has, the
more they are likely to
know about religion, regardless of how religious they consider themselves to be, Pew found.
One
more reason we need to
know about religion is so that CNN can create controversy from it and keep people watching commercials and clicking on ads (which pay for the writers who create the controversy, thus keeping the unemployment rate down).
The
more you
know about religion, the less you believe?
«Of course, we make lots of mistakes and we have lots of impulses, but people are as sensible
about their
religion as they are
about everything else —
no more sensible perhaps, but surely
no less.
The
more you
know about religion and the supposed evidence for a god, the
more obvious it becomes what a big hoax it's been on humans for the past thousands of years!
To add onto my point earlier
about the higher you go in the sciences the
more people you find who have a belief structure in some
religion: Newton may have been
known for «discovering» gravity and creating his three laws.
The less you
know about religion, the
more you believe?
I think the news post was focusing on the fact that religious individuals don't
know vital information
about their
religion, whereas non-believers tend to
know more.
Because the Pew Forum couldn't find any indication that such a survey has ever been done before, it can't say if Americans today
know more or less
about religion now than they did in the past.