
The following is an answer and/or comment by inhahe aka ColorStorm (inhahe.com - myriachromat.wordpress.com). |
"I'm a Christian and I have met Atheists and Muslims who knew more about the bible and jesus than I. My guess is that is very common today. Why do you think that is so.?"
Christians are generally Christians because they've been indoctrinated into the religion from an early age by their parents/community/private school. It's hard to sell anybody who hasn't been indoctrinated in such a way on such an odd set of beliefs. And as that's their reason for believing, they don't really have a strong impetus for studying the bible--all they care about are the core beliefs of the current religious community/their denomination (some of which aren't even really supported in the bible), i.e. the ones they've grown up to believe.
Atheists, on the other hand, are inquisitive people, they want to study everything (perhaps including multiple different religions) in order to gain more perspective and discover what's true, and their having more perspective and knowledge, and also a deep-seated desire to find out the truth, is part of what leads them to be atheists.
Not that I'm saying that atheism is true, I'm not an atheist (I'm just not religious either); even atheists aren't perfect.
On a more direct level, it could also be that knowing more about the bible causes people to become atheists because they then see all the barbarism, archaic morality and contexts, and contradictions of the bible, the stuff that preachers tend not to talk much about..
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