RE: Easy arguments against the Bible, and religion as a whole
December 28, 2011 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 3:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"In context" actually means conforming to his interpretation. Choosing not to buy his interpretation (read:excuse) is to make the story unjustifiable, he realizes this, hence the caps and cartwheels. I don't think he's even come to grips with the issues that "that's the way it was back then" as it is applied to his god, raises. A god that gives us laws which conform to whatever idiocy we're engaging in at the time, rather than some decent set with the sorts of improvements one might expect from an omniscient benevolence. Revisionism that fails to change my assessment of his god, or his book. Just pisses me off that he'd imagine I'd be dumb enough to buy it simply because he says so. Or that if it were true that I would somehow reverse my position?
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