No gentle rebuke? Or does the admonition only apply to atheists? : )
To answer your implied question reaganaut, I have actually read the standard works of all the major religions.
No gentle rebuke?
I have actually read the standard works of all the major religions.
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It was not directed at you, it was a comment about atheists in general, therefore fair game. :)
Yeah, so? So have I, several times and many in their original languages (I am fluent in several). Point?
Familiarity with the stories does not equal a detailed or scholarly knowledge. That applies to believers as well as non. A knowledge of a religion goes far, far beyond a reading of the “standard works”.
And reading does not equal comprehension. A book knowledge is entirely different from a faith. Christians usually refer to it as a “head” knowledge vs. “heart” knowledge.