Theists: How many of you apply a healthy dose of critical thinking when it comes to your beliefs?

Very good question. Unfortunately , not too many people choose to think critically when it comes to religion .After all, doesn't religion require you to accept what is said unconditionally ,and not question it, although it may not be rational? I guess it is also the fact that people don't want to ask too many questions when it comes to God, because they take strength from their belief , and questioning it would of course weaken it.Theists: How many of you apply a healthy dose of critical thinking when it comes to your beliefs?
Gee.. Let's ask these Atheists that did years and years of research. Ha, ha, ha......








Ex-atheist Lee StrobelIn respect to ex-atheists, there have been some notable incidences of atheists rejecting their faith and converting to Christianity, or at least to the acknowledgment of the possibility of God.





Lee Strobel converted from atheism to Christianity and then became a Christian apologist.[175] Before investigating the claims of Christianity Strobel had obtained a undergraduate degree in journalism and also obtained a law degree from Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School. Strobel was an award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune also won Illinois鈥?top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International.[175] After a nearly a two year investigation of the evidence for Christianity, Strobel became a Christian.[176]








C.S. Lewis abandoned his atheism and became a Christian. Lewis was very much influenced by the writings of George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton.[177] In Surprised by Joy, Lewis says: ';In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.';[178]








British philosopher Antony Flew abandoned atheism and became a theist as a result of a longterm contemplation of the intelligent design issue. Formerly, he had been a renowned debater for atheism. According to the news organization MSNBC, Flew became a theist because he believed a super-intelligence was the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.[179] In 2006, Flew and 12 prominent academics urged that intelligent design be taught in British government schools.[180]








The work of ex-atheist and psychologist Dr. Paul Vitz is often cited in respect to atheism. As alluded to earlier, Dr. Vitz wrote the work Faith of the Fatherless.Theists: How many of you apply a healthy dose of critical thinking when it comes to your beliefs?
Perhaps a healthy dose of critical thinking might also benefit the Scientists who, without indisputable proof, dogmatically teach that nothing produces everything; non-life produces life; randomness produces fine-tuning; chaos produces information; unconsciousness produces consciousness; and non-reason produces reason.
I do. Having considered all the evidence and carefully weighed it, I have no choice but to believe that God exists.





';For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.'; (2 Peter 1:16)
ROFLMAO
i lol'd at just wondering's answer.





i wonder if he believes the earth is flat, since it's in the bible it *must be true.
I am a convert. THAT is how I got my beliefs !!!