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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 6, 2016 at 8:56 pm
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I will never understand why anyone considers the bible to be divinely inspired. How can people believe a book that's filled with talking animals? And why would anyone ever follow the god described therein? If you attributed many of the acts of God to the devil, I wonder if people would consider the devil so divine.
The Devil flooded the earth up to the mountains, and killed every living thing on earth except for Noah and his family, whom he deemed worthy, the others he considered to be abominations.
The Devil condoned the deaths of entire nations and stoning.
The devil destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and then turned Lot's wife to salt when she turned back.
The devil killed 70,000 people after David took a census of Israel.
Would they turn and worship the devil, or would they decry these acts as terrible?
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 6, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Strictly answering the thread title.
Anyone taking any scripture literally and acting accordingly.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 6, 2016 at 9:53 pm
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I'd wish for all the religious fundamentalist extremists to cherry pick out all the horrible stuff like the religious moderates do.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 6, 2016 at 10:05 pm
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(January 3, 2016 at 6:59 am)robvalue Wrote: ...it would be a shift away from the idea that holy books are "the word of god" and towards the idea that they are "[ancient] man's interpretation of god".
That's generally what's happened in the more secular countries, the average "Christian" is only Christian in a cultural sense.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 6, 2016 at 10:07 pm
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The term 'Christian' carries meaning to the average person, the trivial tenets of Christianity do not. They hold onto the word Christian, the idea of "Christian" without understanding what it really means, and I can't say I'm unhappy about that.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 7, 2016 at 8:56 am
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Back in 2014, the Archbishop of Canterbury actually admitted he was an agnostic. And he's still the archbishop today!
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 7, 2016 at 9:59 am
Interesting!
Well, I would expect all intellectually honest theists to identify as agnostic. It's the ones that cling to absolute certainty that worry me the most.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 7, 2016 at 6:54 pm
(January 7, 2016 at 8:56 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Back in 2014, the Archbishop of Canterbury actually admitted he was an agnostic. And he's still the archbishop today!
Strictly speaking, that's not a deal killer. He could very well be an agnostic theist, one who believes without making an explicit knowledge claim.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 7, 2016 at 7:10 pm
(January 7, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (January 7, 2016 at 8:56 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Back in 2014, the Archbishop of Canterbury actually admitted he was an agnostic. And he's still the archbishop today!
Strictly speaking, that's not a deal killer. He could very well be an agnostic theist, one who believes without making an explicit knowledge claim.
I would assume he's an agnostic theist, the alternative would make his position as a religious figure rather baffling and quite tenuous. My point was that it's a very unusual stance for the second most prominent figurehead of an institutionalized church to take.
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RE: If I could change one thing about religion...
January 7, 2016 at 7:10 pm
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I'd change the focus of pleasing some ghostly third party to something more useful.....like quilting.
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