But on that same note, to think that every Christian is dumb is pretty offensive too. It seems that as soon as I tell an atheist I'm a Christian, my opinion is no longer valid because they assume I have the IQ of someone in the middle ages. I know that Christians are not represented well, but a lot of that has to do with how the media portrays us. I just ask that you guys us a fair chance in these types of debates.
I don't think that, I think there are lots of smart Christians. I just think they are wrong in this instance. This is somewhat easier to convey in person than in the d-k dome, but it's hard to explain that you think the other person is wrong without implying that they are stupid, or at least having the other person think that you were trying to.
I agree. There are a lot of very, very smart and open minded Christians (especially Ron Paul, a fundy of whom I've read 2 books and studied and stuff). One problem with Christianity is that most of them are perfectly OK with an endless occupation of middle eastern countries as long as brown Muslim people are being bombed and hundreds of thousands end up fleeing as refugees. They try and justify it because of "Sharia Law is taking over America....Muslims hate the US!! (
)" which of course is a bull crap talking point proliferated by MSM lunatics like Bill O'reilly, Hannity, and Rush. They're so closed minded that they won't even read back to the 1953 coup when our relations with Iran went sour,
and it was our fault. They'd rather just nuke the crap out of Tehran and lol as oil prices drop because they think that Muslims are impeding the largest religion in the world from growing even more.
I don't think this makes Christians stupid. I have some very good friends and family that are perfectly fine with this and they are humble, respectable Christians as well. I also realize many Christians don't believe in this idiocy, but the ones that do I'm not sure how they justify it. I have some idea but that's for another thread.