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Re:Down to the Suburbs by rsynnott on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:15PM (#24992646)
> When I went from being an evangelical christian studying theology to an atheist a whole world of conversations opened up to me. I could suddenly talk to people of almost any faith about their religion which had been hard before.

This is odd to me, in that the theologians I know talk to people about religion a _lot_, and seem to have no issues talking to people with different religions. That said, they're generally Catholic or agnostic, which might make the difference.

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Re:Down to the Suburbs by DubiousPusher on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:48PM (#24992895)
Yes and to be clear I'm using theologian loosley here to mean anyone doing deep study on spiritual matters not necessarily someone pursuing a formal education.

I will give an example. I can have a conversation with most Catholic theologians about the origins of the Bible for example. We can have a conversation about mistakes in translations, alternative books that might have been canon, the disparate beliefs of early Christians, etc.

With an evangelical Biblical literalist? Good luck. The very idea that the books of the Bible were chosen by a council of proto-Catholics might be enough to end that conversation.

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Re:Down to the Suburbs by mistermann on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @04:25PM (#24993206)
Can you give us an idea of what kind of samples sizes you are dealing with here, and any adjustments you made for confounding variables and that sort of thing?
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