(May 26, 2012 at 10:08 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:Brian37 Wrote:Bull fucking shit! If everything in the bible is "metaphor" then there is no need to believe one fucking word of it. I can find morality in Harry Potter and Dr Sues and Star Wars too.
If it's all metaphors then it's not a 'belief' as such anymore. Instead, it's a philosophy because it was written by philosophers. So things like the 6 days of creation (according to Philo, who was Plutarch's 'teacher') represent the formation of our body and mind. He says that on the fifth day the 'animals' had been created as a symbol of us attaining the five senses that all creatures posses.
I don't care what the fuck you want to call it "Philosophy" "Dogma" "Metaphor" , once you open your mouth and make a claim, it is mere mental masturbation until universal testing and falsification can act on it.
"It feels right" doesn't cut it.