(February 6, 2019 at 11:30 am)Drich Wrote:(February 5, 2019 at 12:31 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You say that like your "resolution" doesn't. I don't see the point, personally. Why add something that doesn't resolve the paradox when you can simply and truthfully say "fuckers had no idea what they were talking about"? The answer is always right there, it's just a book. Gods, even if they did exist, don't give a shit about magic books. They didn't write them, they don't vouch for their accuracy. They don't descend from on high with a highlighter and whiteout.
To the extent that a magic book is wrong, or bigoted, or just simply outdated...is a thoroughly human problem. Treating the peculiar psyche of the author as though it were a god is the height of heretical inanity.
-but you do you...right? You can make your god as small and ignorant as you need it to be in order to justify your own dickish myopia, lol. I'll keep on mentioning how hilarious it is when a person does this and then insists that it's those filthy godless atheists who aren't taking the idea seriously.
ironically that's kinda the whole amazing thing i am pointing out. the bible can be small and easy to understand and things made simple and it jives well enough to remain accurate, or like in this case the simple small understand can give way to a much more inclusive understand that incorporates real world verified knowledge without changing anything beside the archaic perception that the bible has to be this small easy to understand. As I pointed out in my reading nothing changes in the bible itself only our understanding of how to read the story. once we do this then everything else that once was opposed to scripture can now fit in with scripture.
Allowing room from faith in God and in whatever science has to offer.
The bible can be "small"..... Um no, depending on version it is still around a little over 1,000 pages. And a "book" that took over 1,000 years to complete with over 40 authors and books left out.
"Easy to understand"....... <--- "Easy to cherry pick to suit ones own desires".
No, easy to swallow sure, but most humans of every religion in our species history get sold their mythology at birth, prior to formulating adult critical thinking skills. So, no, it is not just you, and not just your religion.
And the argument that science matches a religion, is one made by apologists of EVERY religion. If you stupidly think Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus don't try to square modern science with old mythology, you have not debated very many people of varies backgrounds of the world. I have.
