(March 6, 2016 at 4:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:That's the beauty of it. Because the bible is so open to interpretation, there's room for infinite explanations so they never have to admit to being wrong when they can just reach for another straw.(March 6, 2016 at 2:24 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: When I bring that up with fundamentalists, I get any number of justifications or interpretations. The most common I get is, "It refers to a metaphorical death."
Yeah, you get that a lot (a really, really lot): Things which don't make sense or which are contradictory, or which are flat-out balls wrong, are metaphors. Or holy parables. Or mysteries. Never, 'Gosh, I don't know what that means' or 'Huh. Never noticed that before.'
One explanation you'll never EVER get is, 'Gee, I must be wrong about this. I'd better investigate more, or come up with a different reason why this is so.' And therein lies the primary operational difference between science and religion.
Boru
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
