Love me or else (Where is it now?)

by David Turell @, Sunday, December 16, 2012, 14:56 (4120 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Fairly apparent = beyond a reasonable doubt, and dhw's doubts are, according to your position, unreasonable. But you are my cowboy buddy, my science mentor, and the recipient of my boundless respect, admiration and affection, and so I forgive you, for you know not what you say.-Our battle over the Bible is a matter of looking at the history of God. The OT guy comes across as nasty. The NT has a guy who professes love, but his followers make a religion out of him instead of the big guy (my wife's point). The Quran describes a benevolent God but suggests nasty ways of spreading His word. These works are all in an infant way of thinking as civilizing minds are back then in early moral development. We have to admit to ourselves that these books need re-interpreting in light of our ethical development as civilized humans. These are mistakes made by error-prone humans who insist on making religions. It is easy to look past all that and apply reason to the presence of God, as shown by his acts, the muslim approach.-Agnosticism should not be a reaction to religious stupidity, but an open-minded approach to reality, which you are trying to do, and I will keep teaching, for I shall not give up. Your mind is too good to be wasted by disbelief! Remember, I've been there.


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