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This is an ignorant comment. Christianity is an extremely large and diverse group, the vast majority of which doesn’t agree with your statements here. The appro
by keiferski 2y ago
This is an ignorant comment. Christianity is an extremely large and diverse group, the vast majority of which doesn’t agree with your statements here. The approaches taken by American Baptists, Russian Eastern Orthodox, and South American Catholics are very, very different from each other.
Even then, the entire history of the Western world, of publishing, and even of information itself is pretty much directly because of interest in the Bible. It’s relevant purely in a historical sense.
IMO it’s a tragedy that “religious literature” has become designated as something non-religious people shouldn’t bother with, because it’s pretty much just willingly ignoring the entirety of human culture and history.
- redwoolf 2y agoI recognize what you’re saying and you’re right. I’m well aware of different approaches and traditions. And I completely agree that ignoring religious writings across history deprives us of understanding the full range of human experience. I for one am not one of those people. I realize that I’m engaging a bit in the very thing I’m criticizing, but this is a comment on HN not a well thought out and twice revised essay.
- sapphicsnail 2y agoI can only speak for the US but I've also found that I can't speak about the Bible with most Christians. Most of my experience has been with Catholics and various flavors of Evangelicals. It's very frustrating. I can read Ancient Greek and have a degree in Classics and that makes no difference. I've had people argue with me that the NT was written in Aramaic or Latin or that Jerome's translation is more authoritative than the earlier Greek texts. I was raised Christian and I can't discuss religion with anyone I grew up with regardless of how respectful I am. There are opend-minded Christians but they are very rare.