RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
January 16, 2017 at 9:28 am
(January 15, 2017 at 5:58 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(January 14, 2017 at 4:13 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Christian Biblical literalism has been falsified; it is time for that portion of the human race that had embraced that fantasy, either through birth, the result of marriage or intellectual laziness and other shortcomings to move on.
Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen gave a very good explanation of why biblical literalists are still around, basically stating that once one accepts the scientific worldview and everything it has discovered you have to remove so much from the bible that the whole thing falls apart. They gave fundies credit on that aspect of their religion (alone) the realisation that more modernist versions of christianity (such as catholicism or anglicanism) fail to grasp; that accepting reality to any extent makes being christian a joke.
What a wonderful synopsis! Sums up my journey from a traditional Christian worldview directly to atheism. There comes a point when a "critical mass" is lost and the whole thing collapses; the so-called modernistic view of religion just never appealed to me, and I still find it to be hollow and superficial. It's like a bridge that is missing its main deck.
