Would Christians be more believable if they were better spellers?

Question

Are Christians aware that Firefox 2.0 has an automatic, unobtrusive spelling checker?

If they used it, would Atheists be less likely to consider Christians unintelligent?

Answer 1

that requires education.

and education tends to eliminate two things -- bad spelling, and mindless cultism.

Answer 2

It's a fact that people will take what you have to say more seriously if you say it well. And saying it well obviously includes spelling.

But generally better communications skills involves learning diplomatic style, good manners, and an ability to make convincing arguments based on more than Bible passages. Christians do their proselytizing efforts a great disservice when they try to use evidence which is simply deemed inadmissible, irrelevant and irrational by the people to whom they present it.

If I were trying to convince you that a statement made by a witness was true, I would not use the statement itself as evidence. I would use external evidence, such as other eyewitness accounts, perhaps physical evidence, or scientific facts and reasoning, expert testimony, published accounts which have been verified independently, logic, even mathematics. The same goes for the Bible.

Answer 3

"Firefox 2.0 has an automatic, unobtrusive spelling checker?"

Wow, I thought all these sites were adding spell-check to their forums. All the while it was my brilliant choice in browsers.

To answer your question, Christians are "the masses" and "the masses" use Internet Explorer.

Answer 4

They don't even have to go so far as to use firefox; the text box where the answer is typed has a spell checker right there. What's obvious is that too many people simply wish to vomit their thoughts onto the board and don't care what they look like.

Answer 5

I got scolded for asking this the other day.
Nice avatar. Inoffensive but still strangely disturbing

There is a lovely "Check Spelling" button box conveniently located on the top right of the Q&A entry boxes for people to use when they are typing.

Answer 6

We seem to be living at a time in the USA when spelling and grammar are not held high by the young. Too bad. Such modest gifts are kind of important, unless, that is, one's aim in life is to know just when to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"

Answer 7

I am a christian and spelling is not the problem. If you want to hear what someone has to say you will.Correct spelling does not make someone intelligent, it just means they probably have a dictionary or spell check.

Answer 8

No, it's not the spelling, it's the lack of logic and the demand that the non-believer be open minded, when clearly the Christian cannot be.

Answer 9

"Evil spelled backward is live."

My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with the free gift of salvation that Christ gives and live life to its fullest.

I have received Christ Jesus, the Master; now I live him. I'm deeply rooted in him, well constructed upon him. I am learning more and more about my faith, trying to do what Jesus wants me to do. School's out, so to speak; so sometimes it is best to just quit studying the subject and start living it!

Christians don't have to be unintelligent. They do need to be living their faith. Sometimes in the living, the passions get ahead of the brain. I understand why some Christians are so eager to write, that they forget to spell correctly. "There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

Answer 10

I wouldn't say more believable, but I might take them more seriously if they spent half a second and hit the check spelling button.
I use it all the time and eye'm ay gud spelr.

Answer 11

In all fairness, an atheist just asked a question "Christians, in the future, could our era be labeled "the deluted era"? The Atheist population is growing ..."

He went on to say, "Imagine children saying

"My grandfather was a smart Atheist. Yours was a deluted Christians" "na na na na na na"

Deluted?