I was watching a video and it got me thinking about this. We all know the type. The Jewish friend who comes over every year to ask if you have any leftover Easter ham. The Buddhist who everyone will brag saved them in the war. The Bahai who adheres to reincarnation instead of Heaven. The other day, I met a Muslim walking his pet pig. A match made in Heaven.
What’s the biggest deviation from the norm you’ve seen in someone of a certain religion who otherwise would show they genuinely believe in it?
I don’t follow your atheist paragraph. Could you clarify a bit? Are you saying that atheists disbelieve the contents of the Bible simply because it’s a holy text, even though some of it may be factual? (E.g. historical events)
It sometimes seemed that way. It’s not as common now for the discussion to come up in the 2020’s (maybe someone gave them what they were looking for, considering the opposite is now trendy), but it was common for them to say, for example, that they require some kind of physical trace in order to not hold God in doubt but not carry this over for things like historical figures.