(March 3, 2009 at 5:37 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(March 2, 2009 at 7:29 pm)padraic Wrote: I was referring to "literalists". These are people who claim the Bible is the literal word of god.That means the bible means exactly what it says.To ignore the unpleasant or hard bits is cherry picking,which destroys the argument of literalism.
All religionists take some aspect of their scriptures literally IMO and none of them take ALL Of their scriptures literally so every believer differs from every other only by degree. That therefore leaves them open to a specific criticism which is why believe one particular bit of their scriptures (literally) whilst not another (allegorically).
That's why I said what I said about theists having to be cherry-pickers because if they didn't they'd have to concede that genocide and the near destruction of entire worlds was AOK. It is, of course, no surprise that Frodo avoided that one
Kyu
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