(February 1, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Maybe I missed something in the last 74 pages (I haven't actually read them all), but has anyone brought up the existence of the non-canonical gospels yet? And how the church leaders picked and chose which gospels they wanted to keep?
I once asked a very relgious Catholic about this, and he told me that the people choosing were guided by god, which underscores the true issue with debating religion with religious people. Nothing is ever a problem when your answer for everything is magic.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell