I am a bit confused with the following debate, originally part of the Moon Landing Thread under Conspiracy Theories. http://forum.skeptic.za.org/conspiracy-theories/moon-landing/.
I agree with ewan that, on the surface, there should be no link between the belief that the landings were faked and being Christian, with one exception:
The belief, or continued belief, in something that one has no confirmable, repeatable evidence for is, in fact, a trait shared amongst the irrational. Once irrational belief sets in, it is almost impossible to change it, even if the belief is challenged on many levels.
The only way to be a Christian and skeptical, in my opinion, is to be irrational about religion, and skeptical about certain other things.
Can one then claim to be a true Skeptic? Is it habitual?
I pose, that Skepticism as a personal trait, from a religious point of view, will lead to Agnosticism and/or Atheism.
Being skeptical just means that one doubts and/or question what others might accept blindly. Yes it’s often about religion but not exclusively.
Can one be a skeptical theist? Yes, I think so, but probably not for long…
As mentioned in the above thread, this is all semantics. My father said he can do with language what God cannot do. He can refer to a square circle but God cannot create one.
(in my personal experience, more non-religious types believe it was all a hoax).
In my personal experience, it’s people that believe in the spiritual realm, using quantum mechanics as a means to place orders for things you want, ghosts and shape shifting reptiles, who believe in the moon landing hoax and that the American government attacked their own country.