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As said in the article "level of education was the best predictor of religious knowledge". In logical continuance, a good portion of the very faithful are not well educated compared to those who question.
Probably because atheists tend to study their enemies before they kill them
Considering the screaming of the religious right that Obama is a closet Muslin, screaming that Atheists are evil because they don't go to church, and impacts into political thought in Intelligent Design/Abortion/Homeschooling/homosexual rights/etc...it is a political factor. Especially the crazy fundamentalists who wish for a US theocracy like Iran.
I actually knew all that. Thing is I've also known Lutherans who don't know that! And when I've tried to explain it to them, they accuse me of trying to tear down their religion!
if you want to have some real fun with catholics, tell them that martin luther wrote the catacysim after he was excommunicated from the catholic church, and the catholics eventually adopted it.
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Originally Posted by subsound
Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation (Reference *Plass, Ewald M. "Monasticism," in What Luther Says: An Anthology. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959, 2:964).
martin luther tried to initiate a catholic reform, but was eventually excommunicated by the church. he went on to form his own protestant church, which inspired others to form protestant churches. however the protestant denomination was already moving along nicely, just that martin luther was like adding a supercharger to an already strong race engine.
There is no American religion... where do you think this is? Iran?
Because America is a re-active country. We tend to to react all the way to one side. We seem to be able to discuss ethnicity in our school system. But due to separation of church and state our secular school system teaches nothing. Not even an interfaith class to discuss all religions. so we are left with private schools or religion schools that occur after secular school lets out. Even at the university/college level there are few interfaith classes. But teaching our kids 12 years of war is much better according to the American system of education.
As said in the article "level of education was the best predictor of religious knowledge". In logical continuance, a good portion of the very faithful are not well educated compared to those who question.
Well, that's the problem. If they could just run the entire program on pictures and symbols and rituals like back in the old days....
Some huge proportion of Churchianity-Volk think Catholics aren't Christian. They must have been explicitly taught this.
As said in the article "level of education was the best predictor of religious knowledge". In logical continuance, a good portion of the very faithful are not well educated compared to those who question.
People expressing that they have a religion, in no way means they actually have one.
Probably because atheists tend to study their enemies before they kill them
No, Atheists come to their belief as a result of conscious thought.
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, except it's a separation of church and state sentiment, I think.
