text: why do you think that people study up on religions that they claim to have no interest in? for exmaple just in reading some comments on here i noticed that a lot of people study up on jw's but claim not to agree with their teachings.  so why do you study up on them?  what's the point behind doing this not only to this religion, but others also? knowledge and understanding.  how can you say something is false or claim not not believe if you don't know the contents of said things?  a broad knowledge base, even if some of the topics you don't believe in, is never bad.  if you don't read about it you might not understand something going on.  let's take scientology and tom cruise for example; if you just listen to what mr. cruise spouts it sounds great and viable but it isn't until you actually read about it that you understand the fallibility of the statements he spouts.  without that knowledge it is easy to get sucked into things that are wrong and harmful.  the more we learn about what others believe the better our society will be.