There's virtually no way to get a Christian, at least not a protestant, evangelical or certainly not a fundamentalist, to admit one iota of agreement on this subject. I think some Orthodox or Catholics might make better conversation about it. The problem is one of absolute belief. If that exists then there is an impenetrable barrier to reason and reality and there is no end to the special pleading or other logical fallacies said believer is willing to engage to avoid the cognitive dissonance that comes with admitting that their infallible word of god is nonsense. I've engaged with hundreds of Christians on this subject and it always ends the same way, me with less hair.
But aside from the argument of a changing Bible that has endured countless copies and revisions, I'm far more interested in all the religious texts that didn't make cannon. We now know that this is probably far more voluminous that the Bible itself. We have some of those texts and they raise some powerful questions that cause Christians to twitch incoherently. Just imagine what it would be like if early priests hadn't destroyed most of those texts. I want those freakin texts!
But aside from the argument of a changing Bible that has endured countless copies and revisions, I'm far more interested in all the religious texts that didn't make cannon. We now know that this is probably far more voluminous that the Bible itself. We have some of those texts and they raise some powerful questions that cause Christians to twitch incoherently. Just imagine what it would be like if early priests hadn't destroyed most of those texts. I want those freakin texts!
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller