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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]edhopper
(33,650 posts)36. I agree that there
is a difference between the theocracies and the people that live under them. Unfortunately it doesn't change how they have to live and I think you find a big percentage of the population agrees with it.
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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