Many people call themselves "open minded"?

>>"This is not a slam to non-Christians but a serious question. Please respond kindly."<<

and taken as intended, heres my simple answer,

Firstly, I am jewish, I believe in God. a single, all encompassing, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. Single, undivided.

by Jewish standards, the whole principle of a trinity is polytheism.

and to consider one of this 3 being a human? that adds idolotry to the "offense"

I am very open minded to a great many things. and I am open to christians believing as they may, but Polytheistic Idolotry such as you describe, is not something I have the slightest interest in considering.

I have considered it, and it boils down to the problem as I've said it.

anybody has unfastened will. some do exactly not take contrasting innovations and comments into attention. They close themselves off from what's and what must be. Atheists are not all approximately technology, even though it quite is greater tangible than in simple terms "believing" or "having faith." Having an open innovations is seeing the priority handy from distinctive sides. each could have their own valid factors. The religious - take christians, commonly refuse to believe that there must be something larger or easier than in simple terms saying god is in charge for each little thing. it quite is form of a copout explanation for issues.

i'll try. ;-)

i consider myself to be very open-minded. if someone can convince me that i'm wrong about a certain topic, then i'll change my view on that particular topic. you can not be a wise person if you're not willing to change your mind when others have proved you wrong. there's no need to be that stubborn. i'm an atheist because people have failed in providing reasonable evidence to me that god does existence. also, because i never really was religious as a child; i saw too many holes in christianity (no offence to anyone) and so, i decided to become atheist. One thing i realized about becoming an atheist is that the only thing i'm sacrificing is a belief in god. other than that, i'm still the same person; i still have good morals and a great heart. So until the day i find irrefutable evidence of god's existence, i will continue to be an atheist and strive to keep on helping mankind. :-)

I think it is difficult for the other monotheistic religions to believe in God taking on multiple forms, one being a son who would give his life for mankind.

Others have been raised in the church but were turned off by something they experienced there as a child or as an adult. They then start to reject (pick and choose) what they will or will not believe. Much of the rejection of the Christian religion has to do with how people have been treated in the church, socially.

I don't believe in any of those things nor do I believe that Christ ever existed. How is that a slam to non-Christians?

I'm absolutely open minded, but I also have questions that so far no one has been able to answer. I'm not just going to go believing in something without a reason.

Many people would like to THINK that they are open-minded and call themselves open-minded just as a praise that they managed to accept a couple of concepts that they used to not accept. They also call themselves open-minded because they don't fight about something they don't totally agree on.

Come to think about it, what do you call an open minded?

Yes, I was brought up Catholic. I have considered and rejected it. Being open minded does not mean believing every idea that comes along. =)

"Open-minded" does not imply a total disregard for critical thinking. Weighing evidence can lead a person to reach a conclusion.

Open mindedness just means you're willing to examine other things, it doesn't mean that if you reject something after weighing the evidence that you're no longer open minded.