(December 26, 2009 at 12:06 am)theVOID Wrote: A lot of the time you will find that Theists will completely dodge questions (Yes i'm talking about you, frodo) or when their conclusion from reading of the bible is disagreed upon by either Atheists or those from other denominations they will claim things like "you need more background info to understand it" or "you didn't correctly assess which are metaphor and which are literal" or "you didn't want to believe it enough" - all of which are complete cop-outs that wreak of special pleading (Once again, take frodo for example).
That's no more than a convenient way to dismiss something you lack understanding of.
If you're going to literally interpret what is always symbolic then yes I'm going to call you a fool. Yes the bible can be complex and pleading ignorance is also fallacious.
