Quote (IceMage @ 30 Jan 2016 02:35)

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 07:15pm)

I know. To all you interested in the Bible out there, Deu 22:21.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jan 29 2016 09:57pm)

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 31 2016 02:29am)

It wouldn't be an atheist thread without random citations.

Quote (Neptunus @ Jan 30 2016 08:34pm)

That argument is so old it was used to refute bible criticism before the bible even existed m8

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 31 2016 02:59am)

What argument?

Quote (IceMage @ 30 Jan 2016 18:29)

It wouldn't be an atheist thread without random citations.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jan 31 2016 11:38am)

If Christians can throw around John 3:16 with zero context, then I should be able to post Deu 22:21 or whichever verse without context to the same effect.

Sure, you can criticize that usage, say it is without context, etc, and you'd be right, but in that case so is posting any single Bible verse on its own, such as John 3:16 or Job 19:25, is out of context.

Both John 3:16 and Deu 22:21 show something about the Bible and the religion of Christianity even though both verses are standing alone and are without Biblical context.

Christians don't have the monopoly on proper context. In fact, the average atheist answered more questions right about the Bible than the average Christian.

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 31 2016 03:59am)

What argument?

Quote (Neptunus @ Jan 31 2016 11:48am)

The "random citations out of context" type of herp derp