As far as the idea of god not being linked with the bible, your right, however to my knowledge those are different gods. A muslim and a Christian aren't thinking of the same god. But the bible has such widespread credibility compared to other religious texts that is the most commonly used.
I haven't met any christians who think the bible was altered in translation or misrepresented by fallible human sources. All that I personally knew thought that 'gods hand' was guiding the hand of the writers and translaters of the bible so god got the exact message tnrough that he wanted.
Back on the actual topic, I do think that being a Christian makes me think less of someone's intelligence than if that same person were to be atheist. But if like you say, someone believes in only part of the bible but not others, that does not improve my opinion of their intelligence. There are people like that but I don't think their much more intelligent if at all. And also if you see my original comment on this post you can see where else I think there is nuances to this question.
I only talk about religion on here now that I'm at college its kinda funny.
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As far as the idea of god not being linked with the bible, your right, however to my knowledge those are different gods. A muslim and a Christian aren't thinking of the same god. But the bible has such widespread credibility compared to other religious texts that is the most commonly used.
I haven't met any christians who think the bible was altered in translation or misrepresented by fallible human sources. All that I personally knew thought that 'gods hand' was guiding the hand of the writers and translaters of the bible so god got the exact message tnrough that he wanted.
Back on the actual topic, I do think that being a Christian makes me think less of someone's intelligence than if that same person were to be atheist. But if like you say, someone believes in only part of the bible but not others, that does not improve my opinion of their intelligence. There are people like that but I don't think their much more intelligent if at all. And also if you see my original comment on this post you can see where else I think there is nuances to this question.
I only talk about religion on here now that I'm at college its kinda funny.