Creed of Heresy Wrote:I always loved how the bible was taken LITERALLY throughout its entire existence until the last half-century, when science began actively disproving the entire bible and all of its mythical shit to be completely and wholly impossible.
A bit off topic here, but according to Karen Armstrong in her book The Battle For God(which I admittedly didn't finish), the bible was not taken literally until the age of the Enlightenment when the scientific method had become the top method of discerning truth. Seeing the success of science, one man whose name eludes me, announced that he was going to scientifically analyze the bible. Instead, and without actually analyzing it, he simply declared the bible to be scientific, and that's when the literal interpretation of the bible and the need to defend it as so began
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
