(April 10, 2012 at 12:06 am)Adjusted Sanity Wrote:

(April 9, 2012 at 11:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm sure noone would dream of asking you for proof, pre-emptive retaliation notwithstanding. However, something in the way of justification for your beliefs would be nice. A little evidence would be even better.

I'll get right on that. But really I just have an overactive imagination, and I'm really wired to believe things. It's hard to manage all the fleeting fancies I have. luckily I'm also wired to reality enough that my beliefs do not evolve into personal truth. I know where to draw the line between belief and knowledge.

You know, the fact that you could come right out and admit that is probably one of the coolest things I've ever heard from someone who is credulous.

Easy!!......................... I don't

(April 5, 2012 at 11:39 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You don't worship a god, you worship a book; and a startlingly poorly-written one at that.

'Poorly written' is your opinion, to which you are entitled, based on a surface reading of the text. I find that the Word has an incomparable symbolic density, my opinion. Reflection on the depth of those riches illuminates my life in more ways than I could have previously imagined.

Because my mother taught me to believe in myself.

(April 15, 2012 at 11:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:

(April 5, 2012 at 11:39 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You don't worship a god, you worship a book; and a startlingly poorly-written one at that.

'Poorly written' is your opinion, to which you are entitled, based on a surface reading of the text. I find that the Word has an incomparable symbolic density, my opinion. Reflection on the depth of those riches illuminates my life in more ways than I could have previously imagined.

It's still just a book that's being worshipped; one which, if it had been written (ok, compiled) today instead of back in the rose-tinted days of yore would most likely end up on the remaindered list in extremely short order. Even Jeffrey Archer, Dan Brown and Stephen King don't have quite as many plot holes, contradictions and zero-dimensional characters as that crock. At least hacks like those mentioned manage to keep a somewhat coherent story going. Imagine what the book would be like if it had been written by good authors. I still wouldn't worship it as a god but at least I wouldn't be embarrassed to read it (by "embarrassed" I mean for those who take the damn thing seriously).