RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 4:23 pm
(July 16, 2015 at 2:39 am)robvalue Wrote: That is what scares me the most about Christianity and Islam. While the oral myth continues that these books are somehow the word of God and should be followed, we live in danger of people simply acting on that. Nice theists edit these books in their minds, but the books stay the same and so does the oral myth.
Yes, and the nice ones are helping keep alive the myth, instead of relegating it to ancient literature (think of the way people read the works about Zeus et al.). Telling people it is extremely important and acting on that runs the risk that one of them will take a closer look at it and say to himself, "hmmm, this sure does not read like it is supposed to be a metaphor...."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
