(January 6, 2022 at 9:11 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(January 5, 2022 at 10:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: "Infallible" is the real problem here. It tends to suggest "can not be questioned"... "is perfect"... "is better than anything you might think."
I have long thought that Christianity would be much less poisonous and evil without the concept of biblical inerrancy. It's a kind of decent religion without all that. But alas....
It shares this characteristic with the Koran. Both are taken by many believers to be infallible. And that is what leads to atrocities. Get someone who think their texts is telling them to kill off those who disagree and you have real evil.
It’s not the perceived fallibility of the text. It is the perception that there can be no alternatives outside the source of the text.
