There is no one single “Christian”. Europe has been Christian for centuries and has maintained some of the best educational facilities in the world, filled with Christian professors, lecturers, and students.
The smart Christians aren’t like this. They have a well-thought-out answer to every r/atheism “gotcha”. You can talk with them about religion and philosophy (though if you try to convert them into atheism or your religion, they have as much patience as you would in their position) and come to very interesting insights together, even if you disagree about the nature of life and the universe.
Some Christians don’t seem very smart, and just seem to apply the label “Christian” to their morals. They don’t have any arguments against criticism, or just can’t handle others disagreeing, so they try to keep any messages opposing their view out. These don’t seem to be good people, in my opinion, or the type that’s a good person as long as you’re not gay/atheist/etc.
The people spreading these shitty textbooks generally seem to fall in the second category. The authors may not even be Christians (there’s good money to be made by pandering to dumb people) but the churches or even schools that buy these, buy them because they can’t win an honest discussion with a teenager without going “because I told you so”.
In my personal experience (in a mostly non/semi atheist country, generally being around higher educated people) most Christians aren’t like this. There’s the dumb, loud, minority, but atheists can very much be the same; I cringe every time I see those “my kid’s school had a bible in the library so I’m upset” stories.
There is no one single “Christian”. Europe has been Christian for centuries and has maintained some of the best educational facilities in the world, filled with Christian professors, lecturers, and students.
The smart Christians aren’t like this. They have a well-thought-out answer to every r/atheism “gotcha”. You can talk with them about religion and philosophy (though if you try to convert them into atheism or your religion, they have as much patience as you would in their position) and come to very interesting insights together, even if you disagree about the nature of life and the universe.
Some Christians don’t seem very smart, and just seem to apply the label “Christian” to their morals. They don’t have any arguments against criticism, or just can’t handle others disagreeing, so they try to keep any messages opposing their view out. These don’t seem to be good people, in my opinion, or the type that’s a good person as long as you’re not gay/atheist/etc.
The people spreading these shitty textbooks generally seem to fall in the second category. The authors may not even be Christians (there’s good money to be made by pandering to dumb people) but the churches or even schools that buy these, buy them because they can’t win an honest discussion with a teenager without going “because I told you so”.
In my personal experience (in a mostly non/semi atheist country, generally being around higher educated people) most Christians aren’t like this. There’s the dumb, loud, minority, but atheists can very much be the same; I cringe every time I see those “my kid’s school had a bible in the library so I’m upset” stories.
This in particular is from Jack Chick, who also belonged to a group convinced that the KJV is the result of a new revelation.
These comics are known as Chick Tracts.