(January 4, 2015 at 4:20 am)robvalue Wrote: I think you'd have to try really hard to find wisdom in the bible, and all you're doing is noticing small bits of your own wisdom that happen to be there. You have trawl through a whole lot of shit to get there too.
Which wisdoms do you speak of?
I wish religious people would take your attitude though psycho, taking good things away from the book without having to worship the whole stupid thing.
I do think there's wisdom in the Bible. I think the fact that some, or much, of the wisdom was independently discovered in other cultures doesn't demean its value, either.
However, I think there's just as much wisdom to be found pondering the obvious evils detailed in that book, and the obvious contradictions made about its god; because in so doing, I've honed my bullshit detector to a fairly high standard of sharpness.
