CHRISTIANITY AND INQUISITION
In my article on how I quit the Christian faith and faith in gods generally, I highlighted the fact that Christians systematically stopped inquiry among believers. Believers hold that credulity is a virtue, that it is better to not know certain things if they will lead you to a "shipwreck" of your faith. Many people whom I have brought this point up against have denied that Christianity is like this, and I have even heard a number of Christian defenders say that science and inquiry have helped to strengthen their faith. In all fairness, this is probably true for a lot of Christians, especially in the Western and European worlds. But in my experience here in Nigeria, I have not yet found this to be the mainstream position. For example, while a Christian, I was hugely influenced for a period of roughly three years by the teachings of a certain pastor (name withheld). I found him to be a very intelligent teacher and expositor of the Bible, and I learnt a lot of things from hi...