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skafather84
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26 Aug 2008, 5:11 pm

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I take the Bible seriously. I do not, however, take it literally. I think in your mind you equate "seriously" with "literally," which is incorrect.

no one takes the bible literally. even fundamentalists don't.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:18 pm

Christian Fundamentalist do indeed interpret the Bible literally. These are the YEC people, remember?

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26 Aug 2008, 5:21 pm

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Christian Fundamentalist do indeed interpret the Bible literally. These are the YEC people, remember?

yeah but it doesn't mean that they follow every rule in the book. just all the ones that they like. unless you know some incestuous fundies who actually follow the marriage laws and they actually stone people to death for the fitting crimes.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:22 pm

skafather84 wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

I take the Bible seriously. I do not, however, take it literally. I think in your mind you equate "seriously" with "literally," which is incorrect.

no one takes the bible literally. even fundamentalists don't.

Yes, instead we call it the grammatical-historical hermeneutic:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Young_Eart ... l_exegesis

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26 Aug 2008, 5:25 pm

Well it doesn't take you long to figure out God is imaginary, now that you've completed this part of life you may journey on to the next, which is more important things.

While we're on the subject, I watched something recently that I found interesting, extremely interesting considering how much of it makes sense. It's 35 minutes long as a warning. (For those of you who watched Zeitgeist you don't need to watch this, my friend was trying to get me to watch Zeitgeist since last December and I've been putting it off since three days ago when I finally decided to watch it, and I found it surprisingly interesting.)

Part 1:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QTGz1lK04[/youtube]

Part 2:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks0_KEUilTs[/youtube]

Part 3:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d17YSkKFU[/youtube]

Part 4:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUwGQySYKDg[/youtube]

Whether you find this convincing or not, you can't deny it's pretty damn interesting. xD

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26 Aug 2008, 5:30 pm

zeitgeist is garbage.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:32 pm

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zeitgeist is garbage.

How so?

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26 Aug 2008, 5:50 pm

z0rp wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

zeitgeist is garbage.

How so?

there's a couple decent points but the majority of it uses vague wording to try and connect points and sometimes misrepresent names and facts to actually show their point.

if you can't get it right, that kind makes your argument worthless.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:14 pm

I imagine, therefore I think I am.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:16 pm

oscuria wrote:

I imagine, therefore I think I am.

i am who i am.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:20 pm

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oscuria wrote:

I imagine, therefore I think I am.

i am who i am.

I Robot.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:21 pm

oscuria wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

oscuria wrote:

I imagine, therefore I think I am.

i am who i am.

I Robot.

.....iPhone?

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26 Aug 2008, 6:48 pm

Sand wrote:

Basically what you're advocating is that nobody knows the truth and we should leave each other to their own stupidities. Unfortunately, religious people can get quite militant because their religion has convinced them that they know the truth and everybody else should conform to their version. Atheists make the fundamental mistake that logic and reason underlies everybody's understanding of the world and they object to obvious nonsense. You cannot stop people from pestering each other to conform to their beliefs.

Notice I made an exception when militantly religious types try to use their religious to legislate, for example, sexual behavior or as a rationale for bad policy. Of course, you are still free to try to convince a religionist that their faith is wrong, but they probably won't change their mind, and you probably won't change yours either. Hearing the same arguments passed back and forth gets old and is entirely unproductive.

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26 Aug 2008, 7:02 pm

You cannot convince me my faith is wrong. You'd have better luck convincing Dox47 that guns are bad. :wink: