1) Most Jews look at a story and try to see if a lesson can be learnt from it in the torah (OT bible). The Christians assembled the bible from many books that churches used. Literal bible has no merit.
2) To think that all interpretations carry the same weight when reading a metaphor is total bull sit. It is this line of thinking that forced this bible belt shit storm on us in the first place. people bought into it and "poof ... creation story is fact nonsense" because they were told any interpretation is valid, so they have none now. . "evil god" is even more stupid.
3) Now for the final strike. The notion that people can't change a belief system when they learn something new irrational. To think that a society can't pick and choose laws and traditions that met the needs of that society is insane. To think that just because the old society ways are not useful anymore that every idea they had is bad is immature. For example "a person will be held accountable for their actions". Yep, that notion is bad alright. The thinking that we can't change lets these Mormons push their BS off on people.
Asking people to follow this line of logic is insane.
2) To think that all interpretations carry the same weight when reading a metaphor is total bull sit. It is this line of thinking that forced this bible belt shit storm on us in the first place. people bought into it and "poof ... creation story is fact nonsense" because they were told any interpretation is valid, so they have none now. . "evil god" is even more stupid.
3) Now for the final strike. The notion that people can't change a belief system when they learn something new irrational. To think that a society can't pick and choose laws and traditions that met the needs of that society is insane. To think that just because the old society ways are not useful anymore that every idea they had is bad is immature. For example "a person will be held accountable for their actions". Yep, that notion is bad alright. The thinking that we can't change lets these Mormons push their BS off on people.
Asking people to follow this line of logic is insane.
