: DDN: Look, if I gave you a road map that was only 10% accurate, readable, meaningful, and consistent would you keep it in your glove box because every once in a rare while something on it would prove useful or would you try to replace it with a real map? Sure, liberation theology is cool, but so what. Liberation theologists have simply taken the parts of the bible that appeal to their particular needs and ignored the parts that don’t. And that’s pretty much what all Christian denominations do – they have to, otherwise they simply wouldn’t make any damn sense to anyone because the bible is wrought with contradictions and errancies. Not one single book of the bible is simultaneously consistent within itself, consistent with the other books, meaningful to modern man, and scientifically accurate. Some of the books don’t meet ANY of these criteria. A sincere bible reader must constantly abandon logic and reason just to get from one chapter to the next. I certainly had to. It was the most painful read of my entire life. And yes, I’m bitter about it damn it! Fabulous critic of Christianity DDN but then everyone and everything has it's failings, point taken about the books in the bible contradicting each other, we are told not to kill yet the massacuring of the enamies of israel is celebrated, we are told incest is wrong but if you are a creationist it is the only way the human race could have been spawned, I disagree with you about the Liberation Theologists though, they are consistant in their interpretation, even if it is a radically different interpretation to everyone else's.
A bible isnt a road map DDN, it is unfair to make such a comparison, it is however a blueprint for how people could choose to live with a bunch of allegorious stories and parables to demonstrate what is meant, it's an old book and important to a lot of people with strikingly different views which has lead to it's misinterpretation but if your co-pilot on a journey is reading a map upside down you dont say hey that's a useless map and throw it out the window, do you?
: DDN: We’re all still in the dark anyway, Nikhil. I just wish the Christians would admit it so we could all start making some real spiritual progress together as a race.
To a certain degree yes, scientific enquiry into the supernatural is often treated as amusing but stupid, by civil and religious authority, aswell as the population at large, I'd like to see that change, I hope I'm not the only one.
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