How many Atheists/Agnostics have noticed that their email inbox is a target for the Forward button of simple minded, unquestioning Christians who seem to fall for every scam and misrepresented piece of nonsense floating in cyberspace?
If you have noticed this correlation, what do you think it means?
Are Christians simple to begin with, which makes them more likely to be 'believers' instead of thinkers, or does the indoctrination disable their ability to process information logically?
2007-04-16 02:54:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I also consider you a fool, Primoa.
On that we can agree.
2007-04-16 03:01:09 · update #1
Yes, you can count on it.
Have you noticed how many urban legend stories there are claiming that some famous person (Robin Williams, George Carlin, etc.) wrote some inane right-wing diatribe? Or how many made-up right-wing stories there are about the evils of liberals?
And of course there's the whole "faith-healing" thing, and televangelism.
It'd be shocking if the email scammers didn't pick up on that kind of gullibility and target "our brothers in Christ".
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Later:
Well, Lundstrom and Miss K (below) make good points, and I think they're right and I was wrong about this.
2007-04-16 02:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never thought of that, but I certainly see it at work. I've been effective at putting a stop to it by consistently showing the person (and the CC group) why they are wrong. Yes, it's from some unquestioning Christian.
It's hard for anyone who believes in talking snakes and magical fruit to understand what is real and what isn't.
2007-04-16 10:02:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Urban legends attack in equal measure atheists and theists alike. Urban legends target "common sense" knowledge, are are therefore just as likely to hit both.
There are some great arguements made by Littlejohn regarding the power of groupthink on urban legends, as well as culture. I reccomend reading up on his mass communication books.
2007-04-16 10:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People tend to fall for urban legends that support what they believe anyway. Since many Americans are Christians, a large number of urban legends will tend to support the assumptions of that group, and a large number of people will be willing to believe and spread them.
However... I recall that I fell for a few anti-Bush urban legends that I should have questioned, merely because they sounded to me like they could, or should, or "had to be" true. It was particularly humiliating because I was known to be the one who always referred others to Snopes.com at the slightest whiff of an urban legend or false rumor.
2007-04-16 10:05:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've noticed a fair number of christians trying to pass off glurge urban legends as actual fact - even going to far as to claim that it happened to a close relative of theirs.
2007-04-16 10:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I get a lot of those Jesus prayer things that you have to forward to 10 people to get your prayer answered but if you delete it God will smite you.
My trash folder is full of them.
2007-04-16 09:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most non-believers are just as stupid as the majority of 'believers'. It's just their luck that they haven't been exposed to religion at such a level that they would never be able to out-think it.
2007-04-16 10:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Sorrowful W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God uses the foolish to confound the wise....
And I consider myself a fool for God
2007-04-16 09:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So much glurge...it makes me sad...
=0(
2007-04-16 10:23:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋