Post by 🌵 on Mar 16, 2017 14:49:21 GMT
All I'm saying is that (1) in my view, the Bible is completely absurd if taken literally but (2) many Christians, if asked to clarify their beliefs, don't take the Bible literally, so their actual beliefs aren't so absurd.
If you're saying that I only "know the shallows" of Christianity, well yeah. I'm certainly no expert on Christianity or the Bible. (Though when I was a kid, I read the Bible in its entirety. I don't remember much of it now, but my impression at the time was that almost all of it was ridiculous and very badly written.) Perhaps if I understood the religion better, it wouldn't seem so absurd to me. You're welcome to try explaining why it isn't absurd if you want.
My point is that:
1. It doesn't matter if many Christians suck at explaining their views. Most people are not scholars of anything in relation to their opinion on something. For example, many atheists I come across have no idea how to explain evolution, but all it takes is a handful of them to make the points valid.
I would go to Eva Yojimbo before I would go to ArArArchStanton to learn about evolutionary theory. That doesn't mean ArArArchStanton actually discredits the knowledge Eva Yojimbo has.
It's exactly the same with religious people. Don't make assumptions based on the least knowledgeable, but on the most knowledgeable.
2. The only weight an individual opinion has is on the person holding the opinion. The opinion itself does not make the opinion factual.