Honestly I have more respect for the literalists than the ones that recognize the crazy, but pick and choose which beliefs within their religion they’re willing to swallow the crazy of rather than walking away.
If you’re going to choose to be a nutter, at least fucking commit.
Amen. This is what they should teach in schools. It’s not like you would go outside and tell people that you’re a flat earther but you don’t really believe that earh doesn’t have curve. Then why do people go outside claiming they a christians but don’t really believe in thw crap that happened in the great folk lore fantasy book called the bible. I would love to read it some day completely, like a folk lore book, not to convert. Same goes for koran. It would be interesting
You’d be too annoyed by the contradictions, repetition and nonsense to finish it.
There are some pretty raunchy bits though.
Yeah propably. I should maybe just stick to kalevala. It’s a huge collection of finnish folk lore which almost got lost but then some guy decided to collect it all and make a book. It’s actually extremly significant for finland and tolkien took inspiration out of it while writing lotr
I started it. But when I got to the part in Genesis where there’s entire chapters devoted to the generations of who begat who, I realized that it was crappily written and wouldn’t be enjoyable.
I mean there’s merit to the idea that modern Christians don’t follow the old testament. The whole idea of being a Christian is recognizing that Jesus started a new convenient and wiped out the old rules.
If only Christians would actually follow Jesus, instead of picking the shit they conveniently already agree with.
It kinda depends what you pick and choose. I’m no Christian, but I think Jesus had some pretty good ideas about how to treat others.
I also happen to appreciate many of the philosophies of the fictional character Jesus Christ of the New Testament.
Whether or not there was a Jesus Christ of Nazareth who walked the Earth, the individual of the Bible is a fictional version, the Santa Clause to Saint Nicholas of Myra.
In any event, agreeing with some or even all of another’s positions shouldn’t equate to deification.
I appreciate the writings of Karl Marx, yet I recognize their shortcomings, and have never worshipped or defied him or his work.
Tldr you don’t have to believe Jesus was God in human form, or even believe he was more than a fiction, to happen to agree with his written ideology that can be paraphrased as “Be excellent to each other.”
Except for those that hoard wealth. He pretty much said they go to hell no matter what. lol
The bible is clearly written not as literal truth. The literalists aren’t even comprehending it or the messages the author intended. They are very modern in their interpretation taking religious ‘truths’ to be literal truths. They’ve ironically been heavily influenced by science, just not in the way compatible with science.
