(March 6, 2024 at 5:49 pm)Jillybean Wrote: Yeah I get it. Actually I do see the literary value of the Bible and am only criticizing the most literal interpretation of it. It's not actually me who claims the Bible is some kind of straightforward rule book - it's conservative Christians who seem to portray it that way.
That's a good way to put it, I think.
People who claim that (for example) evolution is false and God created all the kinds in a single day DO deserve to be argued with.
But of course such people are not the whole of Christianity, and even atheists like me can benefit from the really smart Christians in history.