Misreading 3: Atheists have never experienced religion.
This is a convincingly appealing misinterpretation for two reasons. Cap, the powerful most people of atheists I've met were theists (traditionally Christians) at some at an earlier time full stop in their lives. Oodles were raised in Christian households, attended church, etc. Close all Christian denominations are represented in their backgrounds, ranging from superior forms to fundamentalist versions. In utmost bags, their first tolerate with religion was anything but end, as they steadily accepted as theists for various years or spare. In fact, innumerable were the strong, follower type of believers today's fundamentalists target.
The summarize make happen I say that this is an odd misinterpretation is that Christianity is such a principal component of American culture that any person residing in this nation has experienced its jurisdiction about their lives. This jurisdiction is inescapable, as believers make up the enormous most people. Accordingly, even the unparalleled individual who was never a theist was calm exposed to religion about his/her look.
Misreading 4: Atheists have never read/don't understand the bible.
Someplace do I start with this one? It is well relaxed that innumerable Christians have never read their intact bible and that innumerable spare have offspring to no understanding of it. It appears that innumerable pillar their understanding of the bible on what their clergy point them. In addition, even for relatives who consistently read and study their bibles, utmost put up in complication of how and when their bible was in print. In fact, I harm the reputation of that very few are sentient of the former proof which contradicts the claims which are at the hub of their religion (see The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Edge with a Legendary Christ? Tricky the Ghost of an Elapsed Jesus).
Fault exception, every nonconformist I have relaxed says that point encounters with religion (i.e., defenselessness to believers, church, and devout thinking) was instrumental in the path to non-belief. Furthermost have read the Christian bible innumerable get older and intellect to be knowingly hole experienced about the former proof which contradicts knowingly of it. As one quantity of a often used quantity for atheists studying the bible, schedule out the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
In this cite, it inevitability be documented that Christians and atheists read the bible in very one and the same ways. Christians hard by the bible with the audacity that it was divinely poetic (at tiniest). Atheists intellect to hard by the bible with a cordial literary find. We command to know what it says in order to understand the power so innumerable connect to it. We steadily hard by it with the awe and graciousness it deserves as one of the utmost crown mythic texts of all time. We target to learn from it, and by reading it, we yearn for to learn spare about our guy family. Nonetheless, innumerable of us without delay become nauseated with what we find. The god depicted in the Christian bible is not VIP of sweetheart or respect. This is a hardly, pitiless, and horrendous distinct, probably the best bookish scoundrel ever twisted.
On to Divide III.
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