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13 July 2009 1:15 PM
Watered Down Christianity
One of my friends, a high school teacher in a private (non-religious) institution, said a philosophical discussion in one of his classes recently turned into a conversation about Christian beliefs. These kids -- who are mostly from privileged families -- had no idea that Christianity taught that Jesus was God ("Isn't that something Mormons believe?" said one). He went on recalling how gobsmacked he was by the sheer ignorance of basic Christianity these kids had -- and this, in a culture that purports to be Christian. They didn't even know enough about Christianity to reject it.
His whole post is worth reading.
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Also, why are you surprised at this ignorance. We have an intellectual division of labor in which people think most about what concerns them the most. If you have a question, you go to the person who is most interested in the subject matter. It really makes no difference to most people outside the clergy and academic theologians and divinity professors that Jesus is a person of the Christian God.