Pew research did a study Atheists on average know the most about religion, followed by Jews then Mormons
http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey-who-knows-what-about-religion/
Yeah, and while I'm sure to get called a racist for this observation, the black Protestants pull down the Protestant Christian numbers if you actually look at the numbers (it averages out to 15.7 yet the ONLY group that even scores below 15.8 is the black Protestant group). This is not because black Protestants are dumb but because black Christian experience is different than white and tends more towards the emotional than intellectual discussion of church history, historical theology, etc. That should not be viewed as an attack but it is reality. One of the things Dallas Theological Seminary has been trying to do for years is recruit black students into traditionally white Protestantism (with mixed degrees of success).
I'm sure there are black atheists but black people on the whole tend to be more religious than their white counterparts, an observation that even agnostic prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has made. None of this should be taken as an attack on black people, just an observation on the numbers.
Now that being said.....
But I also find it funny how many Christians just love their clearly prohibited in the bible Christmas trees as well. Just like Tattooed Christians, I get to chuckle when I see it. Tattooed bible versus are my absolute favorite as it truly exposes the hypocrisy and cherry picking nature of so many Christians and it seemed like a good time to drag that up here.
While I cannot argue your basic central point here - there ARE Christians who cherry pick things - you are ignoring the simple fact that the law of Moses (where this was declared) was wiped away by Christ's death (Eph 2, Col 2). There is no NT condemnation of tattoos, and it is debatable there is even an OT one where you cite. (Thus, your immediate tactic that will no doubt follow of trying to say homosexuality was condemned in the law of Moses and thus isn't now is overturned since there are at least two explicit condemnations of it in the NT (Rom 1:18-23, 1 Cor 6:9)).
I don't have any tattoos, but I don't think that's really the point.
Furthermore, your point here goes both ways. How often are we told by skeptics that: 1) we don't know who wrote the gospels originally and that, 2) the gospels WERE NOT written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. It amazes me how many skeptics try to get away with this one. Well if your point one is TRUE then you cannot make the declaration of point two with any level of intellectual honesty.
If you don't know - you don't know; not "we don't know but we DO know it wasn't these folks." "You" here should obviously be understood generically and not as Jon; I'm just making the point that the cherry picking of facts is not limited to Christians, and your example is not a good one.
Here is a good one: Church of Christ people who insist on water baptism as necessary for salvation despite there being an abundance of evidence otherwise AND non-CoC people who try to get around some of the CoC implications by rewriting the text.
So your point is conceded, Jon, but your example isn't. I don't have any tattoos and personally think they're stupid (I find them particularly ugh on women but I digress) - but hey, to each his or her own.
