Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Dishonesty and thoughtlessness in believers. [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)as much as I mean "intellectually dishonest". The problem with the modernists is that as Curmudgeoness notes below, in a discussion with them on their faith, the goal posts are constantly shifting. They do not seem to have any real fixed position on most of what they believe. Even the absolute core parts of the Christian faith are up for grabs. So your wife isn't lying, but I bet if you really questioned her on what her core beliefs are she would have a very hard time being specific, and where she is specific, if confronted with absurdities or impossibilities or moral outrages as a consequence of that specific belief, would without hesitation modify the professed belief. It is that behavior that I describe as (intellectually) dishonest, and again, she isn't lying, it is the nature of the modernist attempt to fit the square peg of a rigid obsolete iron age theology into the round hole of the modern world.