(June 27, 2014 at 10:08 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(June 27, 2014 at 10:03 am)archangle Wrote: if we dont take it literal The bible is fine. Only fundamentalist, which is a personality defect not belief, need it "all true" or "all false"
My guess is that most of us in the middle don't care that much what self help book people read. What bothers us is the notion of pushing "your" belief onto someone else by some type of force.
Well the problem there is that people disagree widely on what parts of the Bible to take literally and which parts are just metaphor. Also, I wouldn't say the Bible is "fine" if we don't take any of it literally, because there are still some pretty immoral statements in there.
hey, a normal response.
I agree with ya. The topic is also "having some mertis". But it is also not "evil". when we take it as a book written so many years ago. For a collection of old books, remember no internet, they did pretty darn good.
As far as immoral. I don't see immoral. I see laws doing the best they could in the times they were formed. And, as humans do, we screwed the pooch. Look at the USA alone. We are as immoral as they were.
