(March 30, 2017 at 10:07 am)Drich Wrote:And, of course, you are the arbiter of what is "legit".
(March 23, 2017 at 2:35 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: The current bible itself has been cherry picked, with uncomfortable bits and stories being discarded over time. The myth and characters are themselves cherry-picked from other religions and older myths. So yeh, christians cherry-pick, and so does christianity.
That seems to be a popular narrative, but when ever I ask the person making that claim to provide an example of the bible 'cherry picking' they can't ever seem to find a legit example of it.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam