"So, Do You Think Christians are Stupid?"

Six months ago, in an emotionally charge up state, an intimate lady-friend asked me the same question. The query was triggered because elsewhere, I articulated that many Chistians are superstitious for they accept and believe in supernatural occurences as miracles, prayers, demons, talking donkey, people walking up from their graves and other similar circumstances.

I replied to her politely, "No, it never occured to me that Christians are such. In fact, I found many of them to be exceptionally smart and that includes you."

I trust that many Christians have intelligetly investigated claims of their faith. The problem is that their examination technique is questionable.

What exactly do I mean? You see, any 10 year old science student will tell you that (a) hypothesis, (b) fact finding (c) experimentation and (d) conclusion are ways to arrive to a particular knowledge.

Christians, however, starts with the conclusions. They conclude "the Christian God exists" and sometimes, furthermore, "the Bible is the word of God". They already know this things to be true and in their heart they never doubted it. So, therefore, when they investigate they are only searching for evidences which will support what is true to them. If an evidence turn out to be contrary to their position, they will dismiss it immediately since it must likely to be an error. No coaxing can convince them that their core belief on God and Bible are wrong. That is not a scientific method of looking into things.

Oh! By the way, that lady and I remain friends to this day.