Religion
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)with prayer.
I don't think the OP makes the case that sacred texts should be relegated to the status of readers digest. I see it as more a move away from literalism and towards looking for the underlying meaning in these texts.
You have created some kind of bogey monster that is unique to you. Everyone's concept of god is different, including those that don't even believe in them. Yours is big and scary. I wouldn't want that one either.
Others are nothing like that at all.
Let people take what they want from what are considered sacred texts. Don't define it for them and don't insist that if they embrace them at all, they have to embrace them literally.
C'mon. Do you really think that head of state/head of the church thing is really about religion? I don't.