I still can’t get over that you admitted that all the stories in the old testament are an allegory. Why can’t the New Testament be an allegory too? Noah’s Ark, Jonah, Samson, Moses parting the Red Sea, talking burning bushes, people living to be 900 years old, are all allegories, but jesus walking on water, turning water into wine, raising Lazarus from the dead, feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and two fishes, and cursing a fig tree…your skepticism isn’t raised in the slightest towards these things?
You say you are trying to think logically, and had a period of doubt, how are those stories convincing when the others aren’t? They are all stories, that’s it. I feel you need to apply a bit more skepticism to these claims, instead of just believing them because they are written in a book.
If muhammad was said to walk on water, and there was never a mention of jesus doing it, you’d probably think that story was nuts, but because it’s in your religion, you just believe it without even being all that skeptical. You just accept the good and miraculous parts, ignore the bad parts, and don’t seriously question the validity of the claims. If you’ve seriously questioned it, you probably wouldn’t be believing in it.
You say you are trying to think logically, and had a period of doubt, how are those stories convincing when the others aren’t? They are all stories, that’s it. I feel you need to apply a bit more skepticism to these claims, instead of just believing them because they are written in a book.
If muhammad was said to walk on water, and there was never a mention of jesus doing it, you’d probably think that story was nuts, but because it’s in your religion, you just believe it without even being all that skeptical. You just accept the good and miraculous parts, ignore the bad parts, and don’t seriously question the validity of the claims. If you’ve seriously questioned it, you probably wouldn’t be believing in it.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
