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What is the minimum ignorance requirement for fundamentalist Christians?

Mike Huckabee made a speech at a gathering of fundamentalist christians today. He made several biblical references. The BBC captured these and conducted an exit poll of the attendees. The ignorance about the bible was staggering!

He said, "... a small smooth stone can overcome a whole lot of armor..." the most intelligent pollster thought maybe he was referring to something about the war.

He said, "... a widow's mite can be very significant ..." Pollster ... isn't a mite a bug??

I don't know why I found this so shocking considering the percentage of Christians who don't know what the First Council of Nicea was or what it has to do with the Bible.

Update:

" ... Widow's mite ..." a mite was a reference to the smallest denomination of currency at the time of the parable. That was all the widow had to donate, everything she had, one mite. Has nothing to do with "might".

"... First Council of Nicea ..." 318 Bishops called together by Roman Emperor constantine for the purpose of canonizing the gospels that would eventually become the Bible as well as to determine some key facets of religious dogma.

Yes, I think I see who is ignorant.

Update 2:

Since you brought it up in this thread Jenny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_hitler#Religio...

I'd say you are one of the ignorant ones when it comes to Hitler.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Approximately 0.3 Phelps/cm^3

    (For scale, every member of the Westboro Baptist church have exactly 1.0 Phelps/cm^3, whereas your average human being registers from anywhere between 0.04 and 0.17).

  • 1 decade ago

    Indeed. I'm amazed by some of that, too. So are some other ex-Christians.

    You'd think that if so many ex-Christians know more about the Bible and its canonization than a good number of Christians do that those Christians might bother to stop and think about that. But no.

    Of course there are also some Christians that have read the bible from cover to cover once or multiple times. I think they're very much in the minority. It seems that many Christians go to church for the fellowship and emotional experience, or because "it's the right thing to do," but don't really have any interest in learning about the details or history of their religion.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I am not sure there is one, but I do feel confident that you could achieve it if there were.

    STOP insulting us by giving only a few select peices of the interview. You fail at making him look dumb, and succeed in the portrayal of your own stupidity.

    I have a personal issue,,,,,,,,,when he said might, he did not say m i t e........that is upon the writer. Get real , get serious and stop trying to tear others down by something so damn insignficant. It makes us all look childish.

    PS......NONE of this rant has ANYTHING to do with the council of Nicea, for that matter , neither did Huckabee.

  • 1 decade ago

    For your information the First Council of Nicea has nothing to do with the Bible.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I dont care about his religious beliefs. I like the guy because He says he would abolish the IRS if he is elected.

    Yes I know that is not a likely scenario, but it sure would be nice.

  • 1 decade ago

    Considering the general lack of knowledge about *real facts* amongst fundamentalists, I'm not overly surprised.

  • 1 decade ago

    The level is quite low. Fewer then three branches in the family tree and your good to go.

  • 1 decade ago

    And it NEVER occurred to you that BBC didn't cherry pick the responses.

    In other words they could have had several intelligent people give insightful answers, but "cherry picked" the ones they wanted their audience to hear.

    Who's ignorant?

  • Rat
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You have to be smart enough to form a sentence, but if you can tie your own shoes, then you're too smart and must be excommunicated.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You're the one who thinks Hitler was a Christian, so who are you calling "ignorant"?

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