# Christians: Why are scientists more likely to be non-believers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 1, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-why-are-scientists-more-likely-to-be-non-believers/662322 "2013-07-01T06:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 661
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-why-are-scientists-more-likely-to-be-non-believers/662322/661 "2013-07-19T01:38:00Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I’d like to know how you approach “literal” vis-a-vis Romans 12:17-21. Well, after having taken a couple of years to learn to read it in the original, learn about the culture of the writers, reading what 2000 years of Christian theological thought on it was, etc… My conclusion was that it, and everything else in the book, was useless bullshit, and rejected the Catholicism I had been raised in. Good enough answer for you? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-why-are-scientists-more-likely-to-be-non-believers/662322)._