[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> On 6/12/05, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at ij.net> wrote:The Rapture Cult
> appears to have no religious substance at all.  All Rapture Cultists
> own Bibles, which none of them have read.
> 
>   Oh really, heh! In my conversations, outside a megachurch in Arvada,
> CO. attended by over a thousand, Bible verses trip off their tongues
> as easily as the word fuck to a teenager. Go to a secular bookstore
> like Barnes and Noble, and there are hundreds of books of,
> "apologetics, " for a mass Protestant audience that help to defend
> their faith against other Christians and atheists.
>    This author, Geisler, is a popular example.
>  Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (Baker Reference Library)
> by Norman L. Geisler
> -- 
> Michael Pugliese

I've met many rpture cultists who can spit out hundreds of passages 
from the KJ xtian bible but they haven't actually read that book. They get 
passages from the services they attend and from pamphlets and other 
books they read. They may have a related verse at the tip of their 
tongue ready in an instance but that doesn't mean they have read their 
bible. 
If really pressed (I mean the whole bible, not just many passages, or you 
think you've read enough passages to count as most of it) most will 
grudgingly admit they haven't really read it. At least that's my 
experience. They usually follow it up with the caveat that you don't have 
to read it all to understand it.

John Thornton