RE: Literal and Not Literal
August 28, 2019 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2019 at 5:40 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 28, 2019 at 5:34 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 28, 2019 at 5:28 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: If a Holy Book is NOT the direct word of god, what is the point in giving it any credence as a book to live your life by?
We don't live our life by scientific or historic facts either. So what do we live our life by?
We certainly do live our lives by historic facts. everything you do is informed by facts from your own history. Everything that ever happened to you to make up your history, happened because operation of the world of which science is the only credible guide for our understanding.
You have morality not because god actually existed to gave it to you. It is because the circumstances of your life and the evolutionary history of all your ancesters and all the ancesters of your fellow men caused you perceive the an urge to behave in a certain way and accept the fictious god as a self-justifying rationale for behaving this way.
There is no higher truth. Higher truth is a fiction that stands in the way of deeper understanding of reality.