Dishonesty and thoughtlessness in believers.

[LostOne4Ever]

4. Maybe they don't have any beliefs solid enough to pin down

From my experiences as a former modernist, I would say that some number of modernist possibly don't have any solidly formed beliefs to pin down.

Back then, when I was still in high school, I would argue that the bible was written by men who were fallible, and in a written form that was subject to corruption, misinterpretation, and mistranslation. I believed that the reason that god gave us a brain and conscience was so that we could find the truth on our own and see through the bullshit.

I thought many of the passages in the bible in particular were completely fictitious or the result of bigoted priest and that if there was truth in it God would let me know through my conscious or correct me though thought and reason.

You would have been hard pressed to find any belief that was solid enough to pin down. I was completely open to being wrong and often would change my stance with new information or an insight I missed. I guess this still counts as intellectual dishonesty though.

Of course, looking back, I now know I was just a hair away from being a deist and immediately jumped shipped the moment I learned what Deism entailed. From there I went on to be an atheist. So I am not sure how much any of that counts.