Post by 🌵 on Mar 16, 2017 12:23:18 GMT
Mar 16, 2017 2:28:52 GMT 🌵 said:
Yeah, that's what many religions seem like to me. I've never been religious, and even when I was a kid the Bible stories stories like Noah Ark struck me as very silly. However, in my experience, most believers reduce the absurdity somewhat by adopting nonliteral interpretations of the texts. Many of the Christians that I've met, when pushed, don't seem to believe much more than that there's some sort of god-like being and that this being was connected in some way to Jesus. I live in a relatively secular area though; I know there are many places where the religious belief is stronger and more literalist.A person only knowing the shallows of something is not a condemnation of the religion any more than a person thinking the beliefs silly somehow has added weight because of that view.
All I'm saying is that (1) in my view, the Bible is completely absurd if taken literally but (2) many Christians, if asked to clarify their beliefs, don't take the Bible literally, so their actual beliefs aren't so absurd.
If you're saying that I only "know the shallows" of Christianity, well yeah. I'm certainly no expert on Christianity or the Bible. (Though when I was a kid, I read the Bible in its entirety. I don't remember much of it now, but my impression at the time was that almost all of it was ridiculous and very badly written.) Perhaps if I understood the religion better, it wouldn't seem so absurd to me. You're welcome to try explaining why it isn't absurd if you want.