Is it Rude to Suggest that Religious Folks May Be Ignorant?

[Humanist_Activist]

9. No, and I will say everybody is ignorant about something....

or several somethings, even Dawkins. I remember seeing a talk between Dr. Dawkins and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, where they were talking about "The Poetry of Science" (title of the talk). The first thing either did when they met on stage was concede the others specialty and accomplishments in their chosen field. Richard Dawkins, in particularly, more or less conceded that his specialty(Evolutionary Biology) doesn't hold a candle to Astrophysics, which is Neil deGrasse Tyson's specialty. Tyson, in turn, acted humble as well.

Before I digress any further, the point is that neither man intruded on the others field to make any factual statements, or even personal anecdotes without opening themselves up to correction from the other, and both accepted such correction from each other when it occurred.

I think the fact is that everybody is ignorant, but the religious deny this, and feign knowledge where its impossible for them to have gained knowledge. They pretend to know, and hence are inherently dishonest about their own education and knowledge level. Honest people know they don't have all the answers, dishonest people say that they do.