Are Christians REALLY this close-minded?

I'm an agnostic and my mom is Christian....


so I was in the car telling ym mom this studff I learned about continental drift and how the earth and the universe is constantly expadning and how crazy it is to think about how big (or infinite) the universe must be, etc, etc....and while I'm talking to my mom about this stuff, she cuts me off saying (and I quote), ';I don't care about that evolution crap. I believe in Jesus Christ';. first off, I wasn't even talking about evolution, I don't care for the evolution theory myself...second, I didn't realize how close-minded my mom was about that sort of stuff. I begin educating myself about the world and universe (all these thing science has discovered) and I tell her about it and she get irritated. come to think of it, even when I was raised believing in Christianity and I was taught those things in school, I ignored them and hated learning about it cus I was so damn close-minded myself, until a few months ago.


now I know not all Christians are this way, but it just shocks me that even someone like my mom would be so close-minded. I know she believes in Jesus with all her heart, but for her to totally dicount all other things just, i don't know...Are Christians REALLY this close-minded?
Hi, I tend to agree with you to a point, a lot of PEOPLE are very closed minded, but its not because they're Christian. I am a Christian, I believe in the Bible %26amp; Jesus %26amp; his ministry %26amp; I AM a Christian before I am anything else! %26amp; I LOVE science, I love learning about the earth %26amp; universe. I took several Geology %26amp; Geography courses in college %26amp; aced them all, my favorite was learning about the formation of the earth, the continental drifts, tectonic plates, etc... it's all so interesting. To me, it's actually a testament to creation, it's solid proof that there had to be a creator! How could the earth %26amp; life have come about by chance %26amp; evolution? That's such a ridiculous theory! The Bible is actually very scientific, despite people's claims about it being contradictory of science.





Any ways, back to your original question, NO Christians are NOT that close-minded, your mom perhaps may be, it sounds like she means well, though, don't be too down on her, but also please do not consider a group as large as ';Christians'; to be something like close minded, or unscientific, or against reasoning %26amp; common sense, just because one person shows these traits. I promise, all the Christians I know are both religiouss %26amp; scientific.





Don't be too frustrated with the other answerer's either, there's all kinds of people with all kinds of opinions. =o)Are Christians REALLY this close-minded?
If you want life, believe in Jesus. If you want to enjoy in the imaginations of the world of science, then believe everything they tell you. Eternal life goes to the follower of Jesus. Just what do you expect your reward will be for blindly accepting the theories and hypothesis of science.
Funny, I had a similar conversation with my mom just yesterday, and I thought she was open-minded too... You can tell because of the weird look she gets on her face whenever I say that I'm happy about evolution...


I know plenty of closed-minded Christians, but I'm a pretty open-minded, science-oriented one myself.
Yes, many are really that close minded. They create rifts between physical observation and their religion. They see it as having to pick between one and another. It's sad because such choices drive up scientific illiteracy in arguably one of the best countries in the world.
yes!!! some christians are SO close-minded! what those close-minded people dont realize is that god never said ';how'; he made everything so he could have put all of this stuff into place and watched it flourish! it's crazy how people can be molded to think sometimes! it really doesnt make any sense!
No, but a lot of them are.


My father is the same way. Just out of curiosity I read The God Delusion and he said, ';I can't wait until God blinds you for reading that';.


It's so sad. Why can't we all just accept each other?
Everybody has a right to express themselves about whatever they are learning or thinking, whatever they like or dislike, Maybe you should tell your mother that, in a respectful way, I am pretty sure she will understand.
She was probably forewarned about the ';evil'; in evolution. lol





Besides, evolution doesn't require belief, it's already a fact.
Uh huh. Everyone's so ';closed minded'; about hearing your ';science'; book lies.





Okay.
Oh yea... They are the most close minded %26amp; one track mind people I have never seen


Plus they are the most ignorant and illiterate people I have ever come across in my whole entire life
Don't worry just because she doesn't agree with you doesn't mean you are wrong in your belief. It is shocking when we start to realize our parents are fallible.
No. We are not.
Not all of them are. It is not smart of you to generalize.
Some are - yes. But not all.
Not all of them... just the insecure ones.
Sounds like she didn't know how to respond to your question.





I believe in God and Christ and was watching the History Channel yesterday about the Universe. Many galaxies, different scientific theories, expanding universe, etc.





This only increased my faith, rather than diminishing it. All the universe with such order and precision and predictability. Has to have some force that is keeping this order.





Science uses measured data to develop models to match the measured data and try to explain it. It tries to answer what is happening and how is it happening.





Religion tries to answer why are things happening.





Theories in science change over time as means are made available for different measurements. The truth stays the same, only our understanding changes.





There are also many different religions and from the perspective of truth, their beliefs are different and sometimes in opposition to each other, so it is not possible for both (or all) to be have all truth at the same time.





There is a law in thermodynamics that states that the entropy (amount of disorder) in the universe is increasing. Everything is moving towards more disorder and uselessness. If this law of science is true, then how can there be so much order in the universe? There must be an outside force counteracting the entropy.





Keep your faith. Make your quest for truth.
I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses.





It does surely sound like she over reacted.





While I of course wasn't there, and am not her, maybe she felt you were somehow making fun of her or her beliefs.





I honestly get tired of the bigoted comments on Y!A about my being Christian meaning that I am against Science, Education, or simply Learning which is SOOOOOOO not true.





My father, an Avid SciFi fan, was also a Genius Electrician, who went on to being an Electrical Engineer, and Taught/helped Teach ALLOT of others to become Electrician's and EEs. Sadly he died in May of '07.





My mother once took a test on Spatial Awareness and scored Top in her class, Wrecking the curve for the class.:D





Both of them, who were/are Christian, Love/Loved learning, and passed that Love on to their 3 sons.





Of the 3 I am the only one who is Currently Christian, but I'd say, We all still have our love for learning.





Now this said, I in no way am defending how your mother acted. Hopefully, if she really was flying off the handle, she's come to realise it, and may in the future be able to explain why she reacted as she had, and/or at the least, appologise.
I know exactly what you mean.


I left religion nearly 30 years ago, while my mom stayed in it big time, and though I've had good relations with my mother all that time, we live in different states and I only see her once a year or so.


Last year she came for a visit. One of my passions is astrophotography (taking photographs of stars, galaxies, nebulae, etc.). I had just finished a nice 14-hour total exposure of the Andromeda galaxy, and had a big print of it on the table when she got there. She said, ';Ooh, that's beautiful, what is it?'; ';The Andromeda Galaxy,'; I tell her, ';one of our neighboring galaxies, about the same size as the Millky Way galaxy with around 100 billion stars, and only about 2.5 million light years away.'; She pauses for a moment and then asks, ';When you say 2.5 million light years away, what does that mean?'; I answer, ';It takes the light from this galaxy 2.5 million years to get from there to my camera. When the light I recorded in my shot left this galaxy, modern human beings hadn't even evolved yet.'; Again she's quiet for a moment...


';But that's impossible,'; she says. ';The earth is less than 10,000 years old. Somebody made a mistake.';





I was shocked, 'cause though I knew she was hardcore religious, I didn't know she was truly that ignorant.





Yes, somebody made a mistake alright...and it wasn't the thousands of people who've made very accurate distance measurements to the Andromeda galaxy...





Peace.
Christians are closed minded period. You can show them their wrong over and over and they just wont listen to you or anyone else. The truth is that Christianity is nothing more than a population control program implemented by those in power to prevent us from attaining true spiritual power and knowledge. If you want more information please visit www.exposingchristianity.com
christians are not freethinkers, atheist are.