RE: Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
June 27, 2014 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 7:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 27, 2014 at 2:24 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Hey RhythmOf course you do, though I don't exactly go with a caveman reading, or a fundy literalist position myself except when there is no choice. There's alot of trouble in deciding that stories are just symbolic, allegorical, or metaphoric. Opens up the possibility that "god" is just symbolic, allegorical, metaphoric. This sort of reading can also give the stories more depth than a literalist reading might. To me it's really a wash. In any case, we're going to stick with the book and experiences, and drop the whole "there can be no empirical evidence of the supernatural" bit then?
Obviously I read it differently to you. You take the cave man/ fundy literalist position, and can't reconcile that. Neither could I.
So I guess from over here your pov looks as conflicted as mine does to you.
(you never saw me laying out the theology of the loaves and fishes? - fucking caveman readings...lulz)
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