RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 17, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(February 17, 2012 at 2:50 am)Xavier Wrote:(February 16, 2012 at 10:24 pm)coffeeveritas Wrote: I think it's kind of ridiculous to read a book of stories and poetry as a constitution for enforcing morality, but that's just me.
Why are you a Christian then if you think the Bible is just stories and poetry?
Well, regardless if you're a Christian or not, the Bible just is a book full of stories and poetry (well, and some letters in the last part). Those are just the genres the books of the Bible fall under. I think the real difference is whether you decide to use those stories as something to inform your moral, metaphysical, and epistemological imagination, or try and use them as a literal book of laws to be enforced modernistically and uncritically upon everyone.
I see it as the difference between using a great work of literature to inspire your own art, and using it to practice diagramming sentences. It's the same words either way, but if you pin them down you lose the fecundity of the language.
