Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[Astonished]

I believe the Dead Sea Scrolls would refute this.

Believe it all you want, it doesn't mean shit.

I guess you can't trust anything then. Science and history have been shown to be incorrect. Do you trust them? Do you trust doctors? We learn much truth about ancient civilizations by examining their writings whether they be totally factual or partially or wholly myth. That's one way we learn about ancient history.

You simple, backward little nothing. Logic and reason help to improve our understanding of things, religion retards it in every way it can. If science is honest (and not pseudoscience and superstition which your kind often try to pass off as science, rather pathetically) then it acknowledges when it is wrong and corrects it. This process doesn't have to be a big painful controversial deal the way it is when the fucking Pope has to announce some major change based on an arbitrary decision about policy, if they even bother to admit fault or being wrong at all. Being closed to correction is religion's own downfall. It's already been cast out by science along with the idea of the Humours to indicate health and the method of leeching. We've moved long past it and science continues to improve and evolve while religion continues to kick and scream like an impotent two-year-old having a tantrum to get attention. Science itself isn't a belief, it's a process, by which to determine what is likely and what is not, self-correcting and it's more powerful than it's ever been to help narrow down our uncertainty about some of the biggest mysteries we've ever contemplated. Religion can't even begin to lick the dirt off science's heel.

Here's the other thing: history isn't exactly significant at giving us anything useful. Those who fail to learn from it are doomed to repeat it, yes, and yet somehow that completely goes over the heads of the religious because they've made the same fuck-ups century after century and still do TODAY. But I don't care if Caesar scratched his balls before Brutus knifed him because it's of no significance. We know power corrupts, the church is the absolute best example of that we have ever had. It's only in religious context that history really matters because it's the only way you can even hope to claim any of it is true because the 'wisdom' is anything but, the morality is hideously primitive and the character of the deities is odious indeed. The only reason to cling to it is if you've been brainwashed to think it's true, not a goddamn thing else.