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My response to being told that my attitude towards Christianity indicates that I have a "closed mind".

12/24/2015

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Dear believer,
You've accused me of having a "closed mind", because you've noticed that I have a well-considered position on Christianity. You seem to imply that you do NOT have a closed mind, as evidenced by the fact that you considered Christianity's claims openly, and accepted them. I put it to you that if either of us has a closed mind, it is in fact you.
If you believed, or went in with an "open mind", to every text, ancient and modern, that made miracle claims, your head would not remain screwed on to your body.

Please don't lecture me about prejudging ancient, self-contradictory miracle accounts, when I'm 99% certain that you haven't done a thorough investigation into either Sattya Sai Baba's miracles, those of Mohammad, nor new age claims of having accomplished telepathy, remote healing/psychic surgery, or past life regressions.
It quite clearly ISN'T a case of approaching the bible with a closed mind. Having latched onto Christianity, your mind is almost certainly more closed than mine to an enormous spectrum of miracle and supernatural claims. As soon as anyone from another religion or 'philosophy' makes a miracle claim, you're inclined to instantly discount it without as much as a cursory investigation, because of what your faith tells you about who is and isn't capable of performing miracles. By definition, I can be more open-minded to the claims of competing world views than you. You're committed, I'm not.
I was open minded enough to consider, whilst being a bible-thumping Christian, that I was heading in the wrong direction, and slowly, year after year, coming to the realisation that I could be wrong about the whole thing. It hurt, terribly, to lose my faith. I did everything I could to keep the doubts at bay, and I felt such anguish when I saw my fellow believers enjoying and expressing their faith, because I was increasingly unable to. And ever since I did finally lose my faith, and began telling people why, I've been being told by Christians that I'm closed minded because I won't consider their nonsense claims without skepticism.​
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Steve
12/24/2015 04:01:19 pm

There are a 1000 gods that the religious are "closed minded to". I'm with you -- 1001. Great work, love the videos.

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wheels5894
1/7/2016 02:24:07 am

Surely being 'open minded' means that one has not pre-judged something before considering it. It is how scholars approach documents from the past and try to do history - by being open to the information but looking for some evidential backing for claims made.

A 'closed mind' person has already made a choice and sticks with it regardless of the evidence. After all, Mo and Joseph Smith both got their information from Gabriel, which is a close to god as one can get, and yet Christian reject these texts even without reading them.

The religious are certainly the most closed-minded group of people I know.

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Mark C. Connors
1/19/2016 05:36:03 am

I think the way you challenge the obvious flaws in bible believing is remarkably well done. Having been raised in a catholic,(becoming disillusioned), then trying protestant versions (to the same end). Slowly,like yourself, I could no longer embrace or defend my faith. To quote a saying, " If your stupid, they'll use you. If your smart they'll despise you." This is the curse of all innovative, analytical, thinkers. Courage young man! Sooner or later the truth will prevail.

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Paul Odegard
9/18/2019 02:01:00 pm

Nonstampcollector, I have only just begun viewing your youtube videos, but I have found them to be fun, critical arguments against religion, especially Christianity. Like you I was a devout Christian but lost a belief in God, especially the Old Testament God of vengeance and anger. Today's Evangelism, conservative, close-minded people love the Old Testament God and rarely look for Jesus except the one they expect to rapture them soon. I am open to a Creator if she/he/they can somehow "speak" to me, and I hope there is an afterlife, a heaven, because it would be nice to meet again my parents and meet Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mark Twain for the first time, except through their writings; however, I only know I have this one life to enjoy the world and other people, etc., so I should use it well. Jesus of Nazareth is one of my best teachers, only if I cherry pick his Sermon on the Mount, as I enjoy other world-wide teachers. Thanks for your videos. I hope you are happy and can love all who view your work whether enjoying your videos or reviling you and your videos. Go ahead and poke fun and rant like Mark Twain and George Carlin, and make me laugh and understand.

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