JUST OPEN YOUR HEART, DAMMIT!

[Salacious B. Crumb]

Now, I'm not going to catholic hell. Yaaaaayyyyy! I simply don't believe in a soul, therefore I don't have one.

So, if you believe something, it automatically makes it true? Interesting logic.. There's people out there that believe in souls, and that ridiculous bible is useless to them.

You took my metaphor too seriously. I should've used a famous quote: "I think, therefore I am".... that better 4 ya?

I don't think that applies to your argument. Here was the next two lines of that quote: "Its just like looking at art; Some are moved to emotion. Some are moved to the restroom. Do we know why this happens? No. We just shake [our] heads and strongly feel the other is... well... less than tasteful about their choices."

It seems that you're suggesting that all people interpret or perceive things in a different way. I don't see how a literal word of god, is to be taken metaphorically. I can't take the beating of slaves verse of the bible, and say that that's meant to be taken metaphorically, when it clearly isn't meant to be taken that way. I could simply choose to believe the bible as I'm reading it, but that's not logical. If I did that with everything that I read, then nothing would make sense. Everything would contradict each other, and I'd be living in fairy tale land. If I decided to read the vedas in that way as well, which one am I supposed to believe? Both of them? No, it's best to read books that have extraordinary claims attached to them, with a skeptical mindset, especially when there is no evidence that the jesus story took place, and no evidence that any of those miracles could actually occur in reality.

And, sorry, I'm too good at taking the biblical "metaphors" literally. I don't think "metaphors" that are misogynistic in nature, are good metaphors to have in a book that supposedly came from, or was inspired by god. As you say, it makes me shake my head, or moves me to the restroom, because those biblical metaphors are pure shit.