(June 14, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I think the actual point is that knowledge of scripture is damn near pointless; regardless of how much you know, there's no guarantee that any individual christian or christian sect will hold to any single piece of scriptural law. You could have a fully complete, working knowledge of every word of scripture and still not know the position of the christian you're talking to because not only do you all pick and choose which parts you want to follow and which ones you don't, and then also which of those are represented literally or metaphorically, but you then have to contend with their knowledge of scripture too.
Because surely you weren't thinking that yours is the only school of thought on this, GC? Pinning down theists on their beliefs is like herding cats, but even if you're successful there's no guarantee they think exactly as you do; there are all kinds of theologians, both crackpot and otherwise, who've twisted the bible in all manner of ways. Now, I know you no doubt think that all of them have got it wrong the moment they deviate from your one-true-bible worldview, but that's sort of the point; there's no such thing as knowledge of scripture because the scriptures themselves have been interpreted into meaninglessness over and over again.
Could we not say the same for Atheists? Just change Christians to Atheists above and ...well, we might want to change cats to something more food worthy?
But anyway... Christians have more in common than not. At least we "ALL" believe in God & Jesus! Atheists on the other hand can't agree on whether there is a God or not! Which baffles the crap outta me?!
And my vote was for Carlin! Much funnier than Dorkins....he better keep his day gig!
Quis ut Deus?
