(November 28, 2022 at 11:00 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Mealy mouthed bullshit. First we insist it was always this way, then we hedge our bets because we're starting to realize that other people know more about magic book..and say it doesn't matter if what we just finished saying was actually true. Not only was genesis taken to be literally true, because the ot repeatedly affirms it as history - the story of christ depends on it being true, and it was still taken to be explicitly and literally true by the authors of the nt.
That the faithful have, in every age, had to grapple with the fact that their magic book is fantasy, has never stopped them from coming up with similar mealy mouthed bullshit reasserting it as fact.
It's called cognitive dissonance. For anyone and everyone, I would recommend the audiobook (on Audible, of course) Pale Blue Dot where the late Professor Carl Sagan reads the first six chapters followed by Ann Druyan, his third wife. Dr. Sagan hits the nail straight on the head with respect to religions and religious belief.
