Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
September 27, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/sns-religion-survey,0,2334966.story...American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study, said Alan Cooperman, associate director for research at the Pew Forum. "These are people who thought a lot about religion," he said. "They're not indifferent. They care about it." ...
..."I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths. That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith," he [Rev. Adam Hamilton, a Methodist minister from Leawood, Kan., and the author of
When Christians Get it Wrong] said. ...
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