and this is not a generalization.
2007-02-07 03:48:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The confusion stems from their unwitting worship of the human intellect.
2007-02-07 03:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by Bob L 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
OK first of all that is a generalization. I am an atheist and I know that I have quite a bit of knowledge with no education past high school- in fact I didn't even finish high school. People also confuse intellingence with education- not just atheists everybody.
2007-02-07 03:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid many Christians in here are making that distinction in their arguments. I've seen quite a few people who claim they're Christian wanting you to list your degrees as proof of your knowledge of religions... which of course I try to use as opportunity to remind them that degrees are simply a piece of paper that indicates you paid your dues at a university or college and passed with the minimum passing gpa.
I, as a Buddhist, and atheist, am certainly well aware that the best chunks of my knowledge about religions, and the illogical nature of an omnipotent creator god came from studying religions from the perspectives of those within the religions and then analytical examinations, comparing contrasting and so forth.
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2007-02-07 03:59:52 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, this is a rather self serving query. so by implication am i to assume that Christians come by their "knowledge" of "God" via osmosis? had to have heard about Jesus somehow, gotten "educated" about Jesus at some point. right?
it's so sad that Christians are so anti education. keep your kids ignorant so they can't escape Christianity.
PS. osmosis is such a big word for people who scorn education so here's the appropriate definition.
osmosis 2 : a process of absorption or diffusion suggestive of the flow of osmotic action; especially : a usually effortless often unconscious assimilation
2007-02-07 04:01:00 · answer #4 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do so many people of faith think that knowledge can exist without proof?
It's a great story and everything, but it just has an awful lot of holes to be believed so blindly and in its entirety without any grains of salt taken for the fallibility of the men who wrote it down.
2007-02-07 03:59:39 · answer #5 · answered by imnotachickenyoureaturkey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do we confuse them?
One results from the other? How can you argue otherwise.
I feel the best way to undermine religious dogma as well as extremist beliefs of any description is to educate our children and show them just how many warring theories there are about faith and politics.
The only justifiable action is surely to reject arguments from authority and learn the scientific mode of thought.
2007-02-07 03:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is too a generalization. Looks like you have very little of both, if you don't know what i generalization is.
2007-02-07 03:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do some theists know the price of everything but the value of nothing?
2007-02-07 03:59:11 · answer #8 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do some Christians confuse willful ignorance with wisdom?
2007-02-07 03:57:51 · answer #9 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
*gives you a V8 slap*
Uh, yes. It is.
And we don't confuse education with knowledge. "Dr." Kent Hovind is a prime example of how one does not beget the other.
2007-02-07 03:51:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋