Recent content by Red_Geranium

Definitely true. I have a conjecture that fundamentalists might be more likely to go atheist/agnostic than liberal Christians for a similar reason. When a church teaches that the Bible describes real, literal people, places and events, they're making empirical claims about history and...

Yes!! Right up there with "theory", "proof", "quantum uncertainty", and "organic" is misuse of "average". I have BS and MA degrees in math and worked in software for several years - including data analysis and SQL programming - so perhaps I'm a little too prickly about this one! :) I've lost...

Interesting thread. I grew up in the Southern Baptist church, in a small town in Texas. I have no idea whether this was a trend across the SBC in general, or was specific to the church my family went to, but it looks like they've gone much more fundamentalist over the past 20 years or so...

In my experience growing up in the Baptist church, people were encouraged to read the Bible for themselves. Our church thought it was really important for all Christians to know their holy book and to be able to explain what they believe and why. There was a big emphasis on scripture reading -...