That is hardly an unbiased resource. I believe there are arguments for both agreement and disagreement. But one religious publication claiming it is accurate does not negate that the overall community does not believe it to be historically accurate. And even if one entry happens to be accurate, it does not make the entirety of it an accurate detail of events. We are story tellers. We make up stories based in reality. This doesn't make them an accurate detail. Even movies based on real people are romanticized.
I never said the goal of every Abrahamic religion was control. You interpreted my comment as you wanted, not as I intended. Communication is funny that way.
Do you know what stained glass is for? While it is a pretty, symbolic of the light from the heavens, it is intended to tell bible stories. However the public is told how to interpret the pictures.
Have you ever taken philosophy? Don't answer that, I don't actually care. But you dont seem to be much of a thinker.
"You are discussing a fraction of humanity's belief system." Pretty big fraction. Roughly a third of the world's population is Christian. It would be more if there weren't countries where it was illegal to be Christian.
"That is hardly an unbiased resource." And every secular source is unbiased towards religion? "And even if one entry happens to be accurate, it does not make the entirety of it an accurate detail of events. We are story tellers. We make up stories based in reality." Many of the books in the New Testament aren't even stories. They're letters. Most of the third chapter of Genesis is just genealogy. Just because it's a story, doesn't mean it's untrue.
"We did this long before any of the Abrahamic religions controlled populations." How else is that meant to be interpreted?
"However the public is told how to interpret the pictures." Yeah, because they're intended to be interpreted a certain way. Just like you said that I interpreted what you said the wrong way.
"Have you ever taken philosophy? Don't answer that, I don't actually care. But you dont seem to be much of a thinker." That's not an argument, that's ad hominem.
That referring to God as a male isn't arrogant, nor is it wrong. You saying it is makes you the judgmental one. All you're doing is attacking other religions for believing something specific and claiming to be open minded. You may claim that you're not, but you are. You have a barely surface level understanding of my faith and I'm inferring other's faiths, yet you feel "enlightened" enough to pass judgment on us. Being open minded isn't always a good thing because it can leave you open to bad ideas. Only believing in one thing doesn't necessarily make someone closed minded, sometimes it just makes them right. Not believing something just because it's specific and/or dogmatic is stupid. Not only does it not make you open minded, sometimes it makes you just as closed minded as you accuse other people of being.
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That is hardly an unbiased resource. I believe there are arguments for both agreement and disagreement. But one religious publication claiming it is accurate does not negate that the overall community does not believe it to be historically accurate. And even if one entry happens to be accurate, it does not make the entirety of it an accurate detail of events. We are story tellers. We make up stories based in reality. This doesn't make them an accurate detail. Even movies based on real people are romanticized.
I never said the goal of every Abrahamic religion was control. You interpreted my comment as you wanted, not as I intended. Communication is funny that way.
Do you know what stained glass is for? While it is a pretty, symbolic of the light from the heavens, it is intended to tell bible stories. However the public is told how to interpret the pictures.
Have you ever taken philosophy? Don't answer that, I don't actually care. But you dont seem to be much of a thinker.
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"You are discussing a fraction of humanity's belief system." Pretty big fraction. Roughly a third of the world's population is Christian. It would be more if there weren't countries where it was illegal to be Christian.
"That is hardly an unbiased resource." And every secular source is unbiased towards religion? "And even if one entry happens to be accurate, it does not make the entirety of it an accurate detail of events. We are story tellers. We make up stories based in reality." Many of the books in the New Testament aren't even stories. They're letters. Most of the third chapter of Genesis is just genealogy. Just because it's a story, doesn't mean it's untrue.
"We did this long before any of the Abrahamic religions controlled populations." How else is that meant to be interpreted?
"However the public is told how to interpret the pictures." Yeah, because they're intended to be interpreted a certain way. Just like you said that I interpreted what you said the wrong way.
"Have you ever taken philosophy? Don't answer that, I don't actually care. But you dont seem to be much of a thinker." That's not an argument, that's ad hominem.
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What exactly is your point here?
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That referring to God as a male isn't arrogant, nor is it wrong. You saying it is makes you the judgmental one. All you're doing is attacking other religions for believing something specific and claiming to be open minded. You may claim that you're not, but you are. You have a barely surface level understanding of my faith and I'm inferring other's faiths, yet you feel "enlightened" enough to pass judgment on us. Being open minded isn't always a good thing because it can leave you open to bad ideas. Only believing in one thing doesn't necessarily make someone closed minded, sometimes it just makes them right. Not believing something just because it's specific and/or dogmatic is stupid. Not only does it not make you open minded, sometimes it makes you just as closed minded as you accuse other people of being.
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I can’t believe you hung in there with that guy for so long.
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Proverbs 26:5, "Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes."