(July 10, 2013 at 4:57 pm)Raven Wrote: Not everything that is posited as being a tenet of the faith is going to go down equally well with every single person who subscribes to it.
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It is probably a good thing that people behave this way because who would want to live in a society where we still stoned people for picking up sticks on the sabbath?
I for one am thankful that we don't live in such a society. It's very true that Xians, for example, will recite the ten commandments up and down all day long, but then stoning naughty children at the edge of town is conveniently forgotten. And good thing too!
I would say that even fundamentalists that have to believe in every aspect of their religion have to cherry pick to one degree or another. Christian scientists have to do this every day when stories in the bible do not correlate with facts of the natural world.
So this is the good. What about the bad, or the pitfalls?
