When asked about why the bible advocates slavery, or in any way says something that doesn't jive with current scientific knowledge, there's a specific brand of apologist who will rush to tell us that the writing was tailored to the people of the time, whose lacking understanding of the world would have rendered the truth incomprehensible to them.
Those same apologists will then turn around and claim that the bible is a densely packed, layered and coded series of metaphors and poetic language that never says incorrect things, despite how clearly incorrect a straight reading of a given verse might be.
So which is it, guys? If the bible is such a brilliantly wrought piece of literature, how and why could it be written by a bunch of dumbasses who can't understand simple concepts like "the world is a big sphere," or "kidnapping people and forcing them to work is bad," and to what end? You can't have it both ways: either the initial biblical audience needed to be talked down to, or they were capable of having their divine truth delivered to them in twisting labyrinths of metaphors and direct language and things that god didn't actually mean.
What's the deal?
Those same apologists will then turn around and claim that the bible is a densely packed, layered and coded series of metaphors and poetic language that never says incorrect things, despite how clearly incorrect a straight reading of a given verse might be.
So which is it, guys? If the bible is such a brilliantly wrought piece of literature, how and why could it be written by a bunch of dumbasses who can't understand simple concepts like "the world is a big sphere," or "kidnapping people and forcing them to work is bad," and to what end? You can't have it both ways: either the initial biblical audience needed to be talked down to, or they were capable of having their divine truth delivered to them in twisting labyrinths of metaphors and direct language and things that god didn't actually mean.
What's the deal?
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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