(March 23, 2013 at 6:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Absolutely certain about that? You're trying to have it both ways. First you say the bible doesn't make sense if you take it literally, but then you insist it can only be read literally. Just be honest and say you're either too indifferent or too lazy to understand anything beyond the Reader's Digest version.
1000's of Christian sects, all reading different parts literally and not literally. Many claiming all the others are 'not true Christians'.
Yet every Christian believes they have the one heuristic that is able to determine exactly which parts are literal and which parts aren't.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
