There are no contradictions in the bible, only things that don’t exactly agree with each other. Of course, there is an explanation why that it is all the time. There’s always some backstory that we need to be educated about, in order to have the wisdom to grasp onto the ‘logic’ of those intellectuals back then. Non-christians just don’t get it, cuz we 2 dummm. We’re not ‘blessed’ by god with the interpreting abilities of the christians. What they call interpret, us normal human beings call, having a wild imagination.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-