Slippery Slopes

"There is a prevalence in the Christian community to attack anything that even remotely looks like opposition. No matter how innocent the questioner's intentions, we make reasonable doubt or questioning synonymous with defiance, doubt, and unbelief." ---TBP

I am curious and I am a born skeptic (so I am totally biased!). The word why can be my favorite word, but I have also built an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dome around myself with beliefs inside that won't and can't be tampered with.

But living this way--with a dome with only the most important things protected and the rest being up for grabs--is hard and lonely. To find someone that isn't insecure, flippant, mean, rude, or ignorant when asking questions about beliefs, etc seems impossible at times.

I find it absolutely impossible for people to have a sure, intellectual foundation on something until they consider and understand the reasons why people reject that same line of thinking. For example, as a believer, how much use can you be to the world when you can't understand how someone else could be an unbeliever to begin with?

Can I be sent some people who securely know what they know without acting an ass just because I ask?

I do wonder if the reactions I get when processing out loud or asking questions are a result of that person's lack of trust of me, or is it because they are so afraid that if anything non-traditional is entertained, it will be a slippery slope for me? Hmmm...