(January 8, 2016 at 1:07 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 12:50 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: But your not convinced it is. So why should you take as an authority? You have no reason to. You don't perceive it being true nor it's insights nor it's eloquence. You haven't studied it thoroughly or with a charitable attitude.
LOL!!! Mystic, that's exactly the same thing Funditard xtians say when we object to anything in their "Wholly Babble" book: "but, you didn't READ IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!"
I memorized the freaking damn book. I will go to my grave with idiot bible verses stuck in my brain. And for over 40 years, I treated it like it was oh-so-special.
And then I started studying science, and asking questions, and reading about the cosmos, and those questions started to get asked about the damn BOOK. And when you simply start paying attention to what the book says, without that rose-colored filter of "special", you very quickly start asking yourself how you EVER thought it was "special". The very idea that somebody thought most of those stories were suitable to teach to children makes me a little nauseous. Genocide. War. Rape. Murder. Misogyny. Xenophobia in spades.
Geez, and the fundies want to ban the Harry Potter books from libraries? Wow.
Oh, but I didn't READ IT THE RIGHT WAY. I didn't assume GAWD wrote it, and hid super-special messages just for me in between the lines.
We know their Babble better than they do, but still they "know" more!
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