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No, Christians aren’t idiots, at least no more than the average person.

I was a devout Christian for thirty years, and I wasn’t unintelligent, nor did my IQ change when my religious label changed. I considered myself thoughtful, moral, reasonable, and at least as smart as the average person.

In other words, I wasn’t an idiot. Yet strangely, I often sounded like one.

In any other context, most Christians would likely smirk, scoff, or recoil at reenacted crucifixions, the drinking of communion blood, and scripture verses about golden hemorrhoids, apocalypse dragons, and human sacrifice.

So what gives?

Are these notions embraced only because they are familiar? Do they make any sense? And do they cause otherwise reasonable people to sound like idiots?

In my case, the answer was a definite yes. For everyone else? Read the book and decide.

-Seth Andrews