(June 10, 2013 at 4:26 am)littleendian Wrote:(June 10, 2013 at 2:44 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Kudos apart from this line. They don't have empirical proofs, but they do have proofs which do make sense.... if we're going to keep on the side of truthI'm sorry, what makes sense about stoning a woman at her fathers doorstep only because she's not a virgin when getting married? It's Gods will.
If you're going to argue for the bible then you'll have to argue for the whole enchilada, not only for the parts you like. Because if you cherry pick the parts you like then you are implicitly acknowledging that it's just another book. And I would argue that other books contain an even better ratio of good over bad ideas.
This is a fundamentalist view point. "all or nothing". We would have to address the personality disorder first. Then decide if the stance is valid coming from said disorder.