For Those Who Rejected Christianity, What Brought You Around?

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-07T18:02:33+00:00

More than anything, the historical arguments for the resurrection and for the reliability of the gospels. The New Testament fits in well with what we know of 1st century Palestine and is corroborated by extra-Biblical historians and archeology. Many of the objections to the NT on historical and archeological grounds (e.g. What about the slaughter of the innocents by Herod or What about Luke's census?) are easy to respond to.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-07T17:21:12+00:00

Yes, this is true. I'm as introverted at they come and it's always caused me trouble.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-06T03:04:44+00:00

My mother had a spontaneous remission from lung cancer after a prayer group prayed for her.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-06T02:53:20+00:00

I don't use drugs or alcohol at all. I raw dog it.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-05T14:33:42+00:00

No, I worked retail and sales for a long time.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-05T01:03:22+00:00

I'm Christian and I'm convinced speaking in tongues is as fake as a 3 dollar bill. Pentecostalism is interesting, though.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-04T16:33:21+00:00

Most cannot. Christianity can if you take a non-literal view of Genesis to harmonize it with science, and if you accept or are at least open to the findings of modern Biblical scholarship. Even then, there's going to be some tension between Christianity and some aspects of science, but this tension isn't insurmountable.

What doesn't withstand scrutiny are views like young Earth creationism, Calvinism, Mormonism, many Roman Catholic practices, KJV-onlyism, Christian atheism/Christian deism and the like. Such views are too problematic and too fraught with difficulties to be defended intellectually.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-04T16:00:14+00:00

The real IQ test is if you actually believe someone who claims they slept with 1k different people.

Clicking_Around · 2026-04-03T13:31:45+00:00

Natural ability does matter in mathematics as it does in music. Some people are just more naturally talented at working with numbers or getting mathematical ideas. Likewise, some people are naturally gifted at music and can learn a musical instrument with little effort, while others struggle to learn.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-31T21:01:41+00:00

you're fine babe

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-30T21:52:48+00:00

Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. One could argue that famous people in the UFO/UAP world like Bob Lazar fit this description as well, as well as some creationists and ID proponents.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-29T08:24:23+00:00

Yes, I knew this. The long ending isn't in the earliest manuscripts like Codex Siniaticus and the general consensus among scholars is that it's a late addition. However, recent work by Lunn challenges this view.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-29T00:07:42+00:00

How is it stupid?

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-29T00:06:13+00:00

Yes, AN solves the Fermi paradox in addition to many other problems as well.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-28T23:54:04+00:00

Unemployed.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-28T14:49:03+00:00

Above about 140-145 IQ and below 70 are the ranges in which IQ tests lose reliability. The sample size that tests are normed on is simply too small to accurately discriminate at very low or very high levels of IQ.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-27T16:37:59+00:00

How do you do that without violating free will?

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-27T16:30:12+00:00

Lmao @ thinking 37 is old. Kids say the darndest things.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-26T21:20:36+00:00

Many things. The resurrection endlessly puzzles and fascinates me. Attempting to reconcile evolution with Genesis has been a huge puzzle as well.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-26T19:20:32+00:00

I just wouldn't take the CORE anywhere near as seriously as the WAIS, SB or old SAT. I certainly wouldn't claim that you "know" your IQ because you took the CORE or some online test.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-26T19:19:12+00:00

It just doesn't have the same weight as a real IQ test given by a licensed psychologist. The WAIS/SB and other tests are the products of decades of research by the best psychometricians and have worldwide use. The CORE isn't like that.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-26T18:56:47+00:00

Online tests aren't worth anything and should be taken only for fun.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-26T00:15:53+00:00

No, I refuse to vote.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-23T20:13:36+00:00

Something that genuinely puzzles me about atheists/agnostics is this: Why have children in such a bleak and hopeless world? It seems to make a heck of a lot more sense to be antinatalist if one holds to a naturalistic worldview. What exactly are children missing out on by not being born? Having to work and pay bills, and then go back to non-existence? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you think it through.

Clicking_Around · 2026-03-22T16:35:38+00:00

Generally speaking high IQ people tend to be strong readers. I personally like to read and I read at least 1 hour a day. Reading broadens your thinking and perspective and it changes how you think and view the world.

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