(July 19, 2012 at 3:30 pm)spockrates Wrote: Well, I would not go so far as to say the Bible is bollocks, but it seems to me that many who misread it are!
But how can you be sure that your interpretation is the correct one? When so many disagree with you, when it is ambiguous, when mistranslations have occurred, when the bible itself has been written and rewritten by all sorts of people throughout history?
It is by a mile, far more likely that a 'correct' interpretation does not exist.
Quote:Your answer is actually the one I've given during conversations with those of such certain beliefs. I have to admit that I admire how sure they are of themselves, but I wonder if such a complete absence of doubt makes one more susceptible to deception, rather than less so.
When you discredit reason, and replace it with faith, why do you need to doubt what you believe? The whole thing about using reason is that you do doubt.