Theism is literally childish

[Neo-Scholastic]

Since it wasn't my point that the religious are deluded, all you've done is address an irrelevant strawman.  Congratulations, asswipe.

I wasn't writing to you; but rather, returning to the more general topic being discussed.

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Unless you already know what the whole thing means going in, no passage necessarily means what it appears to say.  That's fair.  Now, how shall we decide what the whole thing means?

It's the journey not the destination.