(September 5, 2015 at 12:47 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(September 5, 2015 at 4:12 am)robvalue Wrote: I've noticed that it hardly matters what the religious texts say, all that matters is what people think they say. The two are increasingly not the same.
Just chiming in to say that I disagree with this.
It does matter what the texts say. If the bible explicitly said homosexuality was okay, and that using condoms was fine, or that it wasn't a good idea to own slaves... well... maybe you can see where I'm going with this.
Yes I can but being the bible there would be passages that directly contradicted these stances. The biblical authors hedged their bets.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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