But yeah, as someone who was a Christian for 20 years before openly questioning my faith (I didn't understand the concept of faith until then. I actually hadn't fully believed much of any of the Christian teachings since I was about 5) I would say that the only reasons people like myself, who are skeptics that hold on to their doubt and bottle it up and don't tell anyone (and often end up conflicted emotionally because of it) are the following:

-most of their friends believe in God and/or go to the same church. The skeptic may even have a special bond of some sort with their church. They become afraid (rightfully so) of the reactions of their peers, family, and fellow church-goers. I don't blame them. My mom doesn't even buy into the literal bible interpretation and when I let her know that I don't believe she would constantly berate me for it. My best friend, who is a bible literalist, would constantly get into heated debates with me over it as well.

-their logic becomes clouded by their belief and is further clouded by pastors and priests who talk them back into believing.

-they do not know where to seek assistance with logical thinking and so they get biased information from fellow church-goers who don't question their faith either.

the only reason that I was able to break away was because I found an outside group that had credibility in my mind (because of it's close ties with hip hop. Yes, I'm talking about the NGE) and they were skeptics and so it lead me on a path towards finding my own way. This won't happen for anyone without a catalyst of some form.

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people usually are doctrinal and take their ideas from the same source instead of exploring so it's inherent that some religious peoples ideas are biased because they consult only one domain and i agree everyone questions their faith we all know Mother Teresa's crisis of faith that some say that she never recovered even tough she gave the image that she did recover

and what does this have to do with yahoo answers

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

thats like a scientist being bias for studying text books

btw the Bible is NOT one book

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

scientists do a thing called comparative study they explore different domains and don't rely solely on one thing they even compare different scientists works and arrive at a rational conclusion themselves your comparison is hilarious you rely on one thing that being the bible and that goes that's the doctrine and that goes it's undeniable and not opened to neither debate nor exploration if it's in the bible it goes it doesn't matter how absurd it sounds if the bible tells it then its true. relying solely on the bible means your BIASED that's the definition of being biased

scientists explore different domains, but these domains have to be SCIENTIFIC....they dont explore the Bible when they are trying to figure out the origins of life that is STUPID in the same way Christians dont explore the quran when trying to figure out the word of God, that is STUPID...and again you have a compilation of books composing the Bible, so for eg. the life of Jesus, we have the gospels each with a different way of telling it

define a ``nonbiased Christian`` for me please...unless im misunderstanding you

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