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That is a very good article. Touches all bases and set out the points. to those who just believe they 'know' and everyone else is just lacking something it won't make any difference. Until they start asking themselves questions instead of just refusing to listen to others', that is.
Until they start asking themselves questions instead of just refusing to listen to others', that is.
That's an excellent point. When I got confirmed as an adult in the Catholic Church, it was basically to please everyone else. They told me God is good and eternal life is heavenly and I went along with it. When I had doubts during the religious classes, I was told to find comfort in the Bible and that my fears would go away. And if there was a passage in the Bible that sounded stupid, then I was to think of it as a fable and somehow find the moral message within the story.
And to think, it was actually reading the Bible that got me started on this journey to no religion.
That's an excellent point. When I got confirmed as an adult in the Catholic Church, it was basically to please everyone else. They told me God is good and eternal life is heavenly and I went along with it. When I had doubts during the religious classes, I was told to find comfort in the Bible and that my fears would go away. And if there was a passage in the Bible that sounded stupid, then I was to think of it as a fable and somehow find the moral message within the story.
And to think, it was actually reading the Bible that got me started on this journey to no religion.
There are more excuses for Bible problem than spots on a Dalmatian. 'Look at the Big picture', 'Witnesses don't always agree'. And the magnificently brass- necked 'Truer that true' (One of C. S Lewis's, I believe) which is in the same basket as the 'look for the moral' point you made.
Fact is that very many deconverts had come to it by making the fatal error of not just sticking their fingers in their ears but saying 'Ok, there must be good explanations for these supposed problems'. They started looking and found the explanations were not good enough.
I don't doubt that some might convince themselves that 'Bottom line is never mind the discrepancies, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, right?' or 'Well maybe Matthew was right in saying two donkeys'. If so, they might be content with that and remain convinced. They'd be well advised not to to try it out on a skeptic, though.
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