On 08/09/2006, at 7:54 AM, John W Redelfs wrote:
I confess that I do not know as much about atheism as an atheist
does, or a
least not as much that is correct.
Yes, that's clear.
But neither do atheists know as much
about religion as religious people do, at least not as much that is
correct.
No. Wrong. You assumed that all atheists were always atheists just
there. I'm not. Was a practising and fully believing Christian,
raised C of E, attending evangelical churches, Christian summer
camps, ran Bible study groups at school and uni.
Maybe *many* atheists don't know much about religion, but many do too.
Of course, you can dismiss me by saying something like "well, you
stopped believing, so you must have not understood or truly
believed", but that's both arrogant and disingenuous.
The scriptures cannot
be correctly understood unless you believe them.
Utter rot, sorry.
Therefore, statements made
about religion (scriptures) by atheists are almost always made from a
position of bustling ignorance.
And that doesn't follow from your last assertion anyway, even if your
last assertion were true.
Charlie
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