[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

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I never was or am interested in reading the boring bible story book. I am not interested in reading many other books as well (like the three little pigs), because my day has only 24hrs. Thats why i am not interested in the bibles stories and what the authors may or may not want to convey.

Its people like you who are constantly asserting that some "knowledge" of "truth" results from reading and correctly understanding it.

Even when I was very young, I enjoyed reading novels, stories, greek mythology, anthologies given to me as gifts, etc... It was to relate and connect to the broad human experience. I was less interested, and quite frankly bored of my science classes.

And yes, there's a great deal of knowledge to be gained from novels, art, stories, poetry, etc.. Dostoevsky has a great deal of wisdom to impart on us. So much so-that even Einstein credits him for giving more than any scientist ever has.

Maybe it confuses you as to why anyone would care about the stories of a culture several hundred years ago, of some goat herders, and illiterates. Because they share with us, the human condition. They are much a part of who we are, as we are of them. We're not a new creation, but a historic being, molded in the same image of men thousands of years before us.


People who seem so occupied with science, seem very weird to me. Because the typical scientific stuff that interests them is primarily about the sterile objective world outside themselves. The humanless reality out there. The things that foster looking outward more than inward. They want to learn about themselves through the lens of a laboratory, then through lived life, in community, friendship, relationships, through love and empathy, relatability, through the connecting threads that tie us all together.

So it seems to me that the sort of knowledge, many atheism appear to seek, appears to be a form of escapism, a life in which they are erased.