(July 15, 2015 at 9:23 pm)Exian Wrote:(July 15, 2015 at 7:28 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: It would be interesting to know.
Man, I'll have to get back to you on that. It's been a while. Also I should have said "one of the factors", but if I remember correctly, this set everything in motion.
I wanted to know more about my religion (being an American Christian, naturally I knew close to nothing about it, besides the neat and tidy bits).
I've always had a healthy curiosity for history and prehistory, so I took the basic facts you can glean from the bible: It's a book, it contains writing, it contains an origin story, it contains a god. I matched those facts against the timeline in which those things were invented and found these things have been around for a looong time prior. Which means there are thousands of years worth of anatomically modern humans burning in hell, if you're one to believe that sort of thing. At the time, this was a revelation of sorts, partly due to my own compartmentalizing, and partly due to me being told the bible was a true account of our origin.
Thanks for sharing!
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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