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Why the "There are so many interpretations of the Bible" claim is confused
RE: Why the "There are so many interpretations of the Bible" claim is confused
(October 23, 2015 at 11:27 pm)Delicate Wrote: [...]Hell doesn't figure as a motivator for Christian belief (people don't become Christians because they want to avoid hell).[...]

No, of course not. Aside from indoctrination of children by parents and priests, historically people would become christians mainly in order to avoid being raped and slaughtered here on Earth, by christians...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Why the "There are so many interpretations of the Bible" claim is confused - by Homeless Nutter - October 25, 2015 at 11:16 am

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