Read your history, and read your Bible; it's all in there. Some Christian sects have tried very hard to overcome the more regrettable aspects of Christianity, and that's laudable, but the fact remains that those regrettable aspects were there to be overcome in the first place.
And Christianity places a big emphasis on faith, on believing in things that cannot be proved. I think that this encourages people to hold the view that facts are not important, and anything they want to believe in could be true. (This explains a lot about the Republican party. ;-) ) The logical result of this mode of thought is birthers: people who believe that Obama is not a US citizen in spite of all evidence to the contrary, because they're been trained that belief is all-important. Are there Christians who manage to maintain a healthy respect for facts in spite of that? Of course! But the foundation of the religion is belief in things that can't be proved, and it takes a certain amount of intelligence to rise above that training.
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Date: 2013-05-03 12:52 am (UTC)And Christianity places a big emphasis on faith, on believing in things that cannot be proved. I think that this encourages people to hold the view that facts are not important, and anything they want to believe in could be true. (This explains a lot about the Republican party. ;-) ) The logical result of this mode of thought is birthers: people who believe that Obama is not a US citizen in spite of all evidence to the contrary, because they're been trained that belief is all-important. Are there Christians who manage to maintain a healthy respect for facts in spite of that? Of course! But the foundation of the religion is belief in things that can't be proved, and it takes a certain amount of intelligence to rise above that training.