RE: Dealing with ignorant people
December 26, 2009 at 7:02 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2009 at 7:03 am by theVOID.)
(December 26, 2009 at 6:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(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.
Your claim that I lack understanding is exactly what I'm talking about, because of course you the defender of the position are the only one who understands it right? I never claimed that i am correct in how i view the bible, i just find it amusing that you always dismiss anyone else's conclusion the minuet it disagrees with yours by making arrogant remarks such as claiming that they lack understanding or that they lack context yet you never admit your own potential bias.
How do you pick and chose what is metaphoric and what is literal? Is the claim of the resurrection literal or metaphorical? What about the burning bush? Do you even have a methodology that can be reliably applied by anyone to draw the same conclusions or do you just cherry pick?
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