Posted: Jan 15, 2011 5:28 pm
To the best of my knowledge, no.
I don't really see the point of trying to "deconvert" people, purely for the sake of deconverting them. Get them to take a rational, skeptical, scientific view of the world, certainly, and point out where their beliefs have baleful social consequences, certainly.
But the Christians I know tend to already take a largely rational view of the world, and don't see that cherry picking scripture or treating parts of the gospels as allegorical should invalidate their private faith in any way.
I don't really see the point of trying to "deconvert" people, purely for the sake of deconverting them. Get them to take a rational, skeptical, scientific view of the world, certainly, and point out where their beliefs have baleful social consequences, certainly.
But the Christians I know tend to already take a largely rational view of the world, and don't see that cherry picking scripture or treating parts of the gospels as allegorical should invalidate their private faith in any way.