Are Christians willfully ignorant?

Question

I promise "I'm Obsolete" that I would post this question in the interest of fairness, as I posted it to atheists yesterday
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that should read promised not promise.. typo, sorry.

Answer 1

This is an excellent question!
I've read the responses and I respectfully disagree with anyone who says that I cannot question my God. I've questioned Him all my adult life, and I've always had a response.
I also respectfully disagree that I am close minded. I might have the odd strong opinion on things, but I rarely leave well enough alone and investigate that which intrigues me or for which I am questioned.
In my opinion I am not wilfully ignorant - I jumped in with "eyes wide open"

Answer 2

Most of us are blinded by our materials, or by our looks. And even some of us want to do threesomes, orgies, and whatever they desire without paying any consequences. I mean most of the things that are accepted now, were pretty much taboo back then. Not as so much in the open, or public view. And the question relays even on the Government. Why would you move a harmless statue of Ten Commandments? Is it because every time you pass it, you get a guilty conscience? Is our aim now, just to live like there's no tomorrow? When I was growing up, you strived to be a better person. So in my opinion, the willfully ignorant are the ones who don't think of the long run.

Answer 3

No, we are not at all ignorant. We just have a problem with those who want to say that 5500 years of God planning for, and also doing things one way, as well as making it known that in Him there is no shadow of turning, and suddenly undoing all that He has said, and done before. It just doesn't make sense. Coupled with that is the history of the beginnings of such other religions as Islam. Talk about weird beginnings. Islam can't even keep itself pure as a religion. The call to be like the prophet is clearly made to all believers, so why is the idea of multiple wives, as the prophet had, and, again, there call in the Koran to be like, and live like the prophet, now is ignored and even shunned. Could it be that during the time England ruled the area that the infidel ideology of just one wife became the norm for the Islamic faithful? No, Christians are not willfully ignorant, we just know better.

Answer 4

Well I take your not a Christian such as I. Most likely you are either American or British in some form. Are you not guided by Christians? The great rulers of your country have been Christians for the most part. Then why do you doubt us? And no we aren't even ignorant. We see things like we see the sun, we do not see it very well but we know that it is there for certian. You look at things like you do the moon, you see the reflection of what we see and only see part of the picture. Is that no a good enough analogy to persuade you? And it is you who is willingful to be ignorant by not becoming a Christian as well?

Answer 5

Are you an fool? Or are you in basic terms willingly ignorant! Evolution is whilst over the years one species transformations into yet another. It has no longer something to do with micro organism finding out to purchase immunities to drugs, or gravity, or the photograph voltaic device, or the different such ingredient. you notice, in basic terms because of the fact some one wistfully tries to cajole others of their fantasies, and then gets them taught to others, in technology 'so called', yet that doesn't make it technology. The Bibles tale of advent, is literal, and that's a fact.

Answer 6

The logic problems with that question are considerable.

To begin with, no one person is like any other person, so any generalization is very apt to be false. Secondly, 'willfully ignorant' is a subjective term which cannot be proven. And finally, there are no qualifiers on the term -- willfully ignorant of what?

The question is meaningless.

Answer 7

Some are. Some are not. As in any grouping of people, there are those who are content to be told what to think, and those who wish to know why they believe what they believe.

Christianity is a rare belief system in that it actually asks it's adherents to question all things, even the basic claims of Christianity.

It stands up against scrutiny. What does not stand up is 2000 years of church tradition based on man's interpretation of Jesus' message.

Christians who refuse to question their denomination are being ignorant, unknowingly willingly so. A follower of Jesus is encouraged to ask, probe and examine all things.

Answer 8

Do you really need anyone else to tell you "Yes"? But you probably just opened a can of worms. Good luck with the responses (....from the willfully ignorant!)

Answer 9

Speaking as a Christian, I would have to say NO. Some of my fellow Christians ARE incredibly narrow-minded, I admit that freely, and some choose not to question our faith. However, there are many (like myself, I hope) who questioned, searched, and researched before they came to Christianity.
We're the same as any other group, I would think.

Answer 10

People in any group can be willfully ignorant. To trust your own opinion as the true one for all, and to refuse to examine the evidence for the other is willfull ignorance. One thinker called this "contempt without prior investigation", and this is a deficiency in thinking person's book.