(August 31, 2009 at 4:26 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Most Christians is a bare assertion. In my experience of a few thousand Christians nearly 100& don't think it's literal.
Even the literalists don't really treat it as literal (all theists interpret their scriptures to some degree or other) but here's the thing ... I know I've said this to you before but the problem you have is that in order to understand your own scriptures you have to interpret them, you have to decide which bits mean something and which bits don't, which bits are literal, which are allegorical. Once you have decided to treat some bits as non-literal (which necessarily you have to) you are at the beginning of a slippery slope because if you apply that logic to ANY of your bible you necessarily have to consider the rest of your scriptures in the same light and unfortunately for you little of your scriptures bears very close examination.
I strongly suspect that THAT, Frodo, is why you have no choice but to insist your bible is the truth!
(August 31, 2009 at 4:26 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Children understand if it's presented logically. Yeah if the person explaining it has no clue then you haven't got much hope. I've seen it, I know it's possible.
Of course children *understand* ... that's because they are built to trust and they trust adults to tell them what is true and what is not true and have no way of truly recognising (until they are older) when an adult is abusing that position of trust! As far as I am concerned, teaching a specific religious belief to a child is psychological child abuse.
Kyu
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