RE: Wanted: Christians who reject the supernatural and a literal afterlife.
October 19, 2017 at 2:22 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 19, 2017 at 2:00 pm)Whateverist Wrote: That's certainly possible. Perhaps Purplundy and anyone else who reads the bible allegorically is simply confused and suffering an identity crisis. Nonetheless, I'd rather discuss religion with them than with these dumbasses who quote scripture as if they were pleading precedents in a legal case. Boring. Obviously wrong. Low lying fruit. No point in talking to 'true' xtians then.Nah, a christian can read the bible allegorically, just not all of it. The christ bits sort of have to be taken to be true......to be christian.
I think that, often enough, the people who read this or that part allegorically and yet still insist on some meaningful truth are...not so much wrong, as imparting whatever truth there is to their statements to the text. It's probably not there, in the text, and their allegorical reading is likely to jump to some literal point without warning.
I've suggested this to my better half on more than one occasion, whn she asks me why I don;t see goodness in this or that verse. I tell her, that I see the goodness in her, which she lends the text, and that because of the goodness in her...she doesn;t see the shittyness, and that all of this is to be expected.
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