(May 29, 2018 at 1:14 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:Edwardo Piet Wrote:I think there's two types of religious people: honest extremist nutjobs and hypocritical cherrypicking moderates.
Both fundamentalists and moderates cherry pick. It's unavoidable given a text with contradictions as source material. Between the ones who cherry pick the worst parts and the ones who cherry pick the best parts, I prefer the latter, and they're no more hypocritical than the former.
Honesty is quoting the whole thing. That's why I focus on the importance of the context.