{"id":1784,"date":"2010-09-29T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2010-09-29T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T12:07:39","slug":"how-little-does-one-need-to-believe-to-be-a-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"How Little Does One Need to Believe to be a Believer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most Christians, I have actually read the Bible\u2026 all of it. While there are a few positive things in the Bible, most of it is very poorly thought out and very immoral. In fact, you would not be able to find a single person who believes in everything the Bible says and yet you have a whole lot of people who swear they are Christians. So I have to ask, how little does one need to believe to be considered a believer?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, every atheist in the country wrote about the new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pew Research Center\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\">Pew Research<\/a> survey that showed that atheists know more about religion than the religious. I commented on it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/atheism-in-philadelphia\/on-faith-is-religious-literacy-important\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner page<\/a>. After taking the 32 question quiz, I got 29 correct (9 above the atheist average and 12 above the average fundamentalist Christian). I often ask professed Christians why don\u2019t give away all their money like Jesus told them to do. Why don\u2019t they stone adulterers, disobedient children, gays, and atheists?<\/p>\n<p>Some Christians tell me that I am taking the Bible too literally while others try to find Bible based loopholes to get around they lack of faith. Ultimately, I don\u2019t have a problem with Christians not following the Bible, but I just want to know how little does one need to follow in order to call themselves a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Some Christians have told me that the only thing that is required is to believe that Jesus Christ is their lord and savior and I have even meet some Christians who don\u2019t even believe that. In other words, one could ignore all of the Bible and still be considered a Christian. So it seems that one doesn\u2019t have to believe any of the Bible and still consider themselves a Christian.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2010\/09\/29\/make-someone-an-atheist-%25E2%2580%2593-with-a-bible\/\">Make someone an atheist &#8211; with a Bible<\/a> (freethinker.co.uk)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/blue-marble\/2010\/09\/atheists-know-their-religion\">Atheists Know Their &#8216;Religion&#8217;, and Yours Too<\/a> (motherjones.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1760\">Why Do Atheists Often Take The Bible Literally?<\/a> (dangeroustalk.net)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irreligion.org\/2010\/09\/28\/atheists-agnostics-most-knowledgeable-about-religion-survey-says\/\">Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says<\/a> (irreligion.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mojoey.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/sleepwalking-faithful.html\">The sleepwalking faithful<\/a> (mojoey.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e272027c-8710-4903-8e18-48876bbc8a6d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1784\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most Christians, I have actually read the Bible\u2026 all of it. 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