(August 25, 2017 at 1:51 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Each faithful person brings their own morality to the biblical narrative and interprets it's stories in light of that.
The divine command types read it and say "god said so, so it's good".
Other, equally faithful people find ways to distance themselves from their own inherent sympathy "well, they must have deserved it somehow"
Yet another group throws their hand in the air in conceptual moral frustration, exclaiming "mysterious ways!"
Still more tell us that these particular stories were obviously just stories and aren't indicative of the actual character of their god, better expressed in the NT.
As regards to the OP phrase...they;ve put alot of thought into it, it;s more an issue of a lack of anything being produced from all that thought, aside from copious bullshit.
It takes zero thought to generate those platitudes. That's the point I was making.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
