{"id":1765,"date":"2010-09-24T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2010-09-24T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T13:32:19","slug":"fear-of-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Fear of the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I noticed that Reverend Rick Warren<\/a> had an interesting facebook status worth commenting on. His status had something to do with unbelievers not wanting to know the Truth of God or some such nonsense. After replying that unbelievers aren\u2019t convinced by the claims made by believers, I checked back to see what other people wrote. One Christian actually said that atheists are afraid of the unknown. This is coming from people who generally speaking believe in an afterlife because they are\u2026 afraid of the unknown.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, most people of reason love the unknown. We tend to see it as wondrous and exciting. We want to know then unknown and so the unknown fires up our curiosity. The unknown is what fuels our thirst for scientific discovery. More importantly, we have no problem admitting that we don\u2019t know certain thing while the religious tend to be so afraid of the unknown that they label everything known.<\/p>\n

Generally when a Christian doesn\u2019t know something, they just fall back to \u201cGod did it.\u201d God is the answer to everything unknown. It is the answer to every question. In fact, I bet if Rick Warren put that as his status, all his followers would agree.
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