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In reply to the discussion: What if we took the historicity of sacred scriptures off the table, and focused on their meanings? [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)25. Well, once again you are making an assertion without any facts.
A God that isn't there? How do you know?
People say prayers for lots of reasons. They mean different things to different people. You choose not to say them, but you can't assume that those that choose to say them are somehow giving their weekend up. They do it because they like to.
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What if we took the historicity of sacred scriptures off the table, and focused on their meanings? [View all]
Htom Sirveaux
Aug 2014
OP
So there are "sacred" things that are untrue? Isn't that twisting the meaning a little?
Brettongarcia
Sep 2014
#93
So when you apparently supported "Religion," you aren't really supporting Religion so much?
Brettongarcia
Sep 2014
#97
A very strict atheist would say, probably suggest there is no God, and no good in Religion
Brettongarcia
Sep 2014
#99
Sure hope not, because it doesn't end well for people like me in that book.
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2014
#10
I'm aware of the nice bits. The United States Military has a lovely collection of paintings
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2014
#13
Surely it is possible to arrive at entirely opposite conclusions from the same reading.
LiberalAndProud
Sep 2014
#107
If we did all that, it would still be a collection of fever-minded scratchings of bronze age desert
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2014
#4
So do you believe that the people who wrote the bible were sun-addled and brain-fevered?
cbayer
Aug 2014
#11
One relevant religion holds that the book is the record of an oral tradition that links
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2014
#76
But remember, after I said that a presumption of historicism was out, I went on to say
Htom Sirveaux
Aug 2014
#63
Sure, there's meaning to be found in considering why people wrote about a resurrection
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2014
#83
Socrates was executed for atheism (and other crimes) in the same era that the temple of athena was
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2014
#84
What?!? Do you mean to say a ruling political group used religion for a political purpose?
rug
Aug 2014
#91
Sure. Lots of fictional stories are good literature with moral of the story endings
on point
Aug 2014
#28
Why would we want to do that? It's just catering to the ignorance of certain groups
Leontius
Aug 2014
#47
No I'm not a cherry picker. Having actually studied the bible as literature, which is sort of what
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2014
#74
If I'm a cherry-picker when I read the rest of the Bible in light of its best parts,
Htom Sirveaux
Aug 2014
#89
superficially the meaning is that it is perfectly ok to slaughter innocents
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2014
#101