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Yep. Faith precludes reason. As a Catholic I believe that the bread and wine at Mass are transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ. Do I recognize how insane this makes me sound to people who aren't Catholics? Absolutely. And I'm ok with that.
Those sources are at least occasionally backed up with facts.
Bible verses, as most frequently used, are simply an appeal to authority. No factual support, just a verse carefully chosen to back up someone's personal opinion.
And those sources tend to routinely lie, cover up or not even reveal the truth to the masses for some ulterior motive, which inevitably harms the general public at-large. What you and everyone else should be questioning is how people interpret scripture.
Hey if you want to go by some exalted prince, who feared Marduk that s fine by me, I'll just keep praying for you........I prefer the inspired word of the Lord!!!!!
BTW most if delt with contract law,wages military service etc...........
You said that the laws were from the bible, I just pointed out that they were in effect long before the bible was written. By a pagan religion no less.
Actually, I choose to be pretty unreflexive about it at this point in order to be ok with that dissonance. I actually dated a guy for a bit who talked about my "magical thinking," which I found to be a very polite way of saying, "You're nuts!" I get that it's totally irrational, but that's faith.
I will admit, however, that I think it takes guts to just throw religion out the door. For me it just seems pretty scary, so I guess part of it is also emotional, which is not surprising given that it helps put reason on hold.
Thank you for being so honest about it especially the part about putting reason on hold. That's what some religious people will not accept and they continue mindlessly to try and prove the unprovable..
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I think you hit on most people's reason for not throwing religion out. It purposefully injects fear into people, not only with the hell nonsense but also and probably even more potent, the fear of being socially ostracized. Without that well cultivated fear, why would any reasonable person persist in doing what they know is completely irrational.
I have to admit that during a conversation/discussion on here if someone uses scripture or a verse or quotation from the Bible as an opening statement the first thing that goes through my head is that they lack an ability to think for themselves. It's the same if they say "The Bible says........" and assume that i will accept that as fact.
However that isn't always the case. There are some on here that quite obviously are believers and can hold a discussion without using the Bible to fall-back on but are able to think and use the Bible as part of their analysis of the topic. They use it to support their argument not as their argument.
Some believe that God created man in his image and that God is able to think for himself. Some believe that God created man in his image and that God is an unthinking follower.
And news is sometimes firsthand. The bible is a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation that was repeatedly edited by rulers.
And then translated again!
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