Where do Fundamentalists learn to read? In a remedial class?

Question

It is getting very difficult, for a Christian to ask for simple answers to simple questions, without people digressing far away from the topic. I have read the Bible several times, I have one in front of me, I am a Christian. Just to illustrate this, what is the question I'm asking?

Issabelle, what's my question?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure the average fundi in Yahoo! Answers learned to read in school just like everybody else. I'm also pretty sure they are capable of reading... at least at a high school level.

Over the weekend I came up with a theory on just this subject by asking a few questions and seeing the answers they give. If you are interested in the questions I asked and the answers they gave, click on my name and look at my questions.

My theory is that certain "keywords" prompts them to repeat statements they have heard in church... no matter what the question actually was. I don't think fundamentalists are stupid. They just don't care what the question is as long as they get the opportunity to recite portions of their beliefs.

What really stunned me, though, was the lack of knowledge regarding the Bible. What they do know, they repeat until everybody is sick to death of hearing it, but the rest of the Bible is a complete mystery to them.

Just an opinion.

Answer 2

There are plenty of fundamentalists (especially Muslims) who are illiterate. They learn the Koran by heart until they can recite it. So when a Muslim holds a copy of the Koran and looks into it, it does not necessarily mean that he can read.
In fact, many Islamic countries (like Pakistan, for example) keep people (and especially women) deliberately away from education in order to continue their control by Islamic scholars.

P.S. It is only 500 years ago that in most of Europe it was a criminal offence for a layman to own or read a Bible (since that could have opened people's eyes and infringed the monopoly of the Church). The punishment for such "crime" was death.

Answer 3

They probably learnt to read just fine. But then when you are trying to proove a point that has nothing to do with what you are supposed to be talking about, sometimes you have to change things around. So probably if you asked them to read to you whatever they wanted, you would find them quite capable to reading.

Answer 4

they learn from the basics.

I dont know what your question is, but know that just reading is not the same as understanding what you have read.

1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Answer 5

most questions i see from christians in this forum lack the focus for anyone to "digress" from. for example: "why don't people understand the word of god?". first of all, what "people" is this person refering to. second of all what does this person mean by "the word of god"? and finally what do these "people" need to understand about the "word of god". perhaps your questions need to be more organized.

Answer 6

reading the bible and having it in front of you doesn't make you a spiritual person - spiritual people wouldn't judge the answers given

i don't know what your question REALLY is - but do you judge my answer? :o)

Answer 7

They read through very selective lenses---just the parts they want to read.

Answer 8

Many don't and just repeat their irrational mantra of doctrines.