Quote (ThatAlex @ Jan 30 2016 12:57am)

I don't think all atheists think the Bible has zero knowledge. I think some think it has some moral value, they just don't recognize it as divinely inspired or written.

For instance I think most of us can agree to the moral teaching of publicly stoning a woman to death for adultery:

"She shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you."

(Deu 22:21)

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 29 2016 11:15pm)

I don't think most atheists grasp just how much wisdom there is in the Bible... because they haven't read it.

Here's a pretty cool channel with short videos summarizing books of the Bible, if anyone is interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMhmDPWeftw

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 30 2016 01:15am)

I don't think most atheists grasp just how much wisdom there is in the Bible... because they haven't read it.

Here's a pretty cool channel with short videos summarizing books of the Bible, if anyone is interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMhmDPWeftw

Quote (Unanswered @ Jan 30 2016 01:37am)

I'm fairly sure there are a good amount of atheists that read the bible more than your common christian.
Almost every christian I talked at my work didn't even know the traditional view of who wrote the first 5 books. :rofl:

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 30 2016 01:41am)

YouTube videos and excerpts off atheist websites don't count.

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 30 2016 12:15am)

I don't think most atheists grasp just how much wisdom there is in the Bible... because they haven't read it.

Quote (dark-soul @ Jan 30 2016 02:55am)

Atheists know more about Christianity than your average christian according to a pew study. Evangelicals and mormons were the only groups who scored higher. Atheists scored highest in knowledge of world religions though. So it's actually more likely that an atheist read the bible than a christian.

http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey/

Study is from 2010 though so there may be a newer one but I just remember seeing this one when it came out.

I just took their quiz and got an 80. I got one of the christian questions wrong and a few other random ones :ph34r:

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 30 2016 09:35am)

Take your "average" anything and you can expect to see ignorance. Many people who identify as Christian simply don't have an interest in learning about their faith. Atheists may do a bit better testing simply because they have more of an interest in learning the very basics of different religions.

That said, the vast majority of atheists haven't read the Bible and don't have a true desire to learn about Christianity. They've read Leviticus and got halfway through Matthew before settling for Richard Dawkins videos.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jan 30 2016 12:57am)

I don't think all atheists think the Bible has zero knowledge. I think some think it has some moral value, they just don't recognize it as divinely inspired or written.

For instance I think most of us can agree to the moral teaching of publicly stoning a woman to death for adultery:

"She shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you."

(Deu 22:21)