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Why do you assume that Christians don't think for themselves? The atheist rhetoric on this forum in the past few days is getting a little irritating
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I'm no atheist, quite the opposite. I firmly believe in the existance of an almighty God, creator of everything.
Yet I refuse explicitely any of the major existing cults (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) as I can't rationally accept a religion based upon "revelation". I don't say that ALL christians don't think for themselves (Kant was a good example of the opposite), but based on my conversations with a good amount of them, I find that 99% follow their religion basically because they were taught so. Few, if any, have taken the interest of reading (specially philosophy) and trying to make their own conclusions instead of simply choosing to believe what others say.
IMO it is an offence against God to have an intelligence and not use it to draw your own conclussions about you, God and all that implies, but instead believing blindly what others say that God is or wants. It might be easier, but it is not necessarily the best.