(February 23, 2013 at 1:56 am)catfish Wrote:(February 23, 2013 at 1:50 am)Esquilax Wrote: And when you've got a single verse saying it's all fake, and the rest of the book saying it's absolute heavenly truth, why should I be taking your reading over anyone else's?
Really? Show me one verse where it says it's absolute heavenly truth...
(and I've got more than one verse)
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Did you not listen to me? I don't care.
No reading I give of the bible will be any more credible than anything you give, and crucially, that level of credibility is zero because the entire book is basically literary chinese whispers. You're running from a facsimile of a facsimile of a facsimilie of a real, truthful thing, and I'm being generous by even allowing that the events depicted might be true at all.
Besides, like I also said, I don't give a shit about what you think of the bible, because you aren't the world. I care about how the world changes, how it suffers, because of what real, demonstrable people think of it. I'm happy you have an opinion, and I'm happy that you cherry pick because it makes you just that little bit more intellectually honest- I really do- but your opinion is personal. The majority of christian denominations take all those "God said"s in the old testament (and I'd figure that would be a pretty good indication that it takes itself as divine truth, no?) very literally, and their opinions are why I give a shit at all.
And yes, before you chime in, I know that there's more than one christian position on anything. That's still not the point.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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