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Right, that's why they have massive churches adorned with gold and intricate sculptures. Just because it technically isn't required to pay does not mean that ye
by vultour 7mo ago
Right, that's why they have massive churches adorned with gold and intricate sculptures. Just because it technically isn't required to pay does not mean that years of brainwashing won't condition you to give your money away. I've only been a few times, but seeing old people queue up to give a sizable part of their pension to the church just made me sad.
- mlrtime 7mo agoAnd your world view is very jaded and myopic if that is all you see. There are plenty (majority) where your anecdote is not true.
- DonHopkins 7mo agoA majority of the bible is not true.
- graemep 7mo agoEvidence for that statement? Can you give some examples? Mostly when people say "the Bible is not true" its usually a result of misunderstanding it (e.g. adopting Biblical literalism, not understanding the culture and context, not understanding nuance).
- falcor84 7mo agoIf you don't adopt biblical literalism, then isn't the Bible just true in the same way that Star Wars is true?
- graemep 7mo agoNo. You interpret each document in context and in culture. For example, you interpret Genesis as a story that makes a point and tell you something - it is like Jesus's parables (no one same says they are literal!). For example, that all human beings are made in the image of God - as we all look different that is clearly not literal. That we are all related and of one ancestry. On the other hand you interpret the gospels as deliberately written biographies of Jesus. You interpret the epistles as letter written by their author to a particular person or group of people. You interpret the psalms as lyrics. It is the traditional way of interpreting the Bible and few people had a problem with it until modern times.
- seanw444 7mo agoI think their point was that Star Wars also has metaphorical lessons to be learned if you're not interpreting it as a literal history lesson.
- graemep 7mo agoYes, that is the point of fiction. its not unfair to compare Genesis to Star Wars to an extent, but, to a Christian, what you learn from Genesis is a lot more important (the "word of God" rather than the "word of George Lucas"). However, much of the rest of the Bible should be read differently - the letters, biographies etc. Each document ("book") needs to be read appropriately and in context. Again, each can be compared to others in its genre, but its inclusion in "the Bible" (but there are lots of Biblical canons) gives it that extreme importance.
- falcor84 7mo ago> It is the traditional way of interpreting the Bible and few people had a problem with it until modern times. Sorry to nitpick, but there were quite a lot of "heathens" and "witches" who had faced some problems with the traditional interpretations of the Bible before modern times.
- 9864247888754 7mo agoWhat a cheap cop-out to move the goalposts so that only the claims that haven't been disproved yet or are unfalsifiable are meant to be taken literally.
- mjmas 7mo agoWhat is wrong with taking the Bible as literal statement of fact?
- graemep 7mo agoIts a departure from Christian tradition (including early Christians), and it leads to demonstrably false conclusions, and its silly to treat many works of many different genres (myth, chronicles, personal accounts, poetry and lyrics, biographies, and letters) as all being interpreted the same way.
- 9864247888754 7mo agoWhat's your god a metaphor for?