RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 22, 2012 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2012 at 2:06 pm by Faith No More.)
Mister Agenda Wrote:I'm inclined to think that the people who wrote the story didn't mean for it to be taken literally
According to Karen Armstrong in her book The Battle for God, the bible interpreted very metaphorically up until the Enlightenment. Science was the new tool to determine the truths behind our existence, and the bible-thumpers wanted to keep up. So, one guy in particular(the name eludes me) announced that he was going to through the bible as see how it stood up to scientific scrutiny. Well, instead of doing that, he never even looked at the bible scientifically, and then he declared that the bible was entirely scientific. And thus was born the literalists and the path to creationism.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell