'Pulling the rug' from under the feet of "peacecful believers"?

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It's a good point. How can interpretations "change"? It's the same frigging book, and now suddenly you're gonna start doing something totally different to what you were doing a minute ago. You have no way of verifying the previous way was the right way, nor the new way. I guess some new scrap could turn up or something, or they find stuff in other ways that "may change the meaning" of what it says. Bullshit. The assumption it's divinely inspired is the stupidest thing I could imagine. If it was divinely inspired people wouldn't need to kill each other over how to read it.

So how do you convince people of the new interpretation when it's all arbitrary? You can hardly use a reasoned argument. I'd say the only people qualified to give the right "interpretation" are the authors, and since we have no originals of anything (I assume this is the same with the Kerrang) we've just got copies of copies. And really, for all we know they wrote these books to be stories; fiction.

So how do you do it? History seems to point towards telling people that's how they're going to do it, and killing them if they don't. Science doesn't seem to work that way. Einstein didn't need to slaughter the previous scientists to get his new theory into place. Well, I haven't heard about it if he did.

These days everyone has their own interpretation. It's just words on a page that some douche bag wrote ages ago. If you think it has all the answers to life, or even any of them, you're starting with a very fragile premise.

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Dyst: No, I'm putting you ignore because you blatantly quote mined me, I gave you 3 opportunities to own up and you refused to. I don't need this kind of shit. I come here to enjoy myself.

If someone else asks one of those questions in a more respectful matter, I will answer it.