Why is it that the ratio of people who can answer hypothetical questions to people who cant are higher?

Question

with non-believers compared to believers?

that's what i noticed since i've stayed in this category for quite a while now.

does that mean they're (believers) more bigoted?

Answer 1

be always prepared for an answer that is what the bible says

so id say a large percent of people just like to say i dont and shrug there shoulders ans change the topic or walk away

Id say about 80% for the unsaved and little lower for those that go to church

Answer 2

What was that ratio again? I didn't notice the figures in your post.

Answer 3

Ask me one.  

Answer 4

Asking them to think outside the box is the same as asking them to think outside their book.  It will never happen.

Answer 5

To be a bigot, there has to be a right and a wrong.  Atheists/Agnostics only have their own opinions that they inflate to make themselves seem more important than they are but they have no basis of proving that "right" and "truth" actually exist.

Can you say it is wrong of a bear to jump the fence and kill the farmer's sheep or the farmer?  If you can't, then on what basis do can you say that stealing or murder is wrong for humans?  Where did this idea of right and wrong come from?

If right and wrong are no more than an inflated opinions, then your argument falls apart.  Atheists/Agnostics  become the condemning bigots.  So prove there is a right that you can call theists, "bigots" or wear the term yourself around your neck.

Answer 6

the people who CANT answer hypothetical questions are higher!!!!

i always ask questions hypothetically, and people give me dead serious answers, and say things like

'that would never happen'.....DUR i just said its hypotheticall!

Jeez, i swear some people have no imagination!

Answer 7

That, or they're just better at telling the difference between a leading question and a open question that non-believers are.

Which would be quite ironic.

Answer 8

I suspect it's because believers already have an answer and don't need hypotheses.  Or do you simply dismiss any answer as bigoted if it doesn't agree with your hypothesis?

Answer 9

Hypothetical in most cases translates to speculation, which ultimately gets people nowhere.