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And not even among the ones that believe is sacred agree which parts are valid or not, not even mentioning the translations which it's own interpretations each.

gattilorenz 4y ago
I don’t disagree, but also don’t see in what way this is relevant to the original question or opposing my answer. If anything, two billion people care so deeply about it that they can have arguments about what’s “valid” and what the meaning is.
- ghostDancer 4y ago
  Agree to that point of view.
- hef19898 4y ago
  I kind of doubt that there are 2 billion devout Christians at the moment. Those devout ones, yes they care to some degree about the academic (for lack of a better term) merit of the biblical texts, those Christians I know are far less interested in the academic disputes about the bible than you make it seem.
- awestroke 4y ago
  Do you really think 2 billion people care deeply about the Bible? I think the number of Christians who spend any time at all reflecting on or debating validity and meaning of the Bible is in a small minority
  - gattilorenz 4y ago
    No, I don't actually think there's 2 billion people that care or reflect on the differences between "Bibles". Let's say it's 0.1% of them. Let's say it's 0.01% of them. Maybe it's even less. How many people care deeply about the works of Shakespeare or Homer, enough to think about the meaning and autorship of the texts (for example, to know that the story of the trojan horse is actually mostly told by Virgil, or that probably Homer, if he ever existed, didn't write both the Iliad and the Odyssey)? I think fewer than that. Is that a good reason to dismiss all research on it? That was the original implication, to which I was trying to answer. Admittedly I overly estimated the number of people to make a point, but I'd still say there's more people who care about the Bible than Lisp, yet we don't see many comments like "ugh, new article on Lisp, who cares? It's a dead language anyway"...

gattilorenz 4y ago

I don’t disagree, but also don’t see in what way this is relevant to the original question or opposing my answer. If anything, two billion people care so deeply about it that they can have arguments about what’s “valid” and what the meaning is.

ghostDancer 4y ago
Agree to that point of view.
hef19898 4y ago
I kind of doubt that there are 2 billion devout Christians at the moment. Those devout ones, yes they care to some degree about the academic (for lack of a better term) merit of the biblical texts, those Christians I know are far less interested in the academic disputes about the bible than you make it seem.
awestroke 4y ago
Do you really think 2 billion people care deeply about the Bible? I think the number of Christians who spend any time at all reflecting on or debating validity and meaning of the Bible is in a small minority
- gattilorenz 4y ago
  No, I don't actually think there's 2 billion people that care or reflect on the differences between "Bibles". Let's say it's 0.1% of them. Let's say it's 0.01% of them. Maybe it's even less. How many people care deeply about the works of Shakespeare or Homer, enough to think about the meaning and autorship of the texts (for example, to know that the story of the trojan horse is actually mostly told by Virgil, or that probably Homer, if he ever existed, didn't write both the Iliad and the Odyssey)? I think fewer than that. Is that a good reason to dismiss all research on it? That was the original implication, to which I was trying to answer. Admittedly I overly estimated the number of people to make a point, but I'd still say there's more people who care about the Bible than Lisp, yet we don't see many comments like "ugh, new article on Lisp, who cares? It's a dead language anyway"...