I agree, but what you said was: When I asked, you said something about 322 BC. I'm guessing a lot of things happened in that year. Having...
If there's one thing atheism cannot compete with religion for, it's certainty, false or otherwise. While some atheists might erroneously insist...
Of course the Law is open to interpretation. Have you never met a lawyer? In all seriousness though, the text of the Law is subject to the same...
It was in reference to OWB's claim that the Bible is self-interpreting. He doesn't seem to understand that Barthes' "death of the author" arises...
I love when you tell me to "read a book". It's like liquid enlightenment. I am unaware of any rational reasoning for being good and not being...
See, I'm sorry to keep harping on about this, but if that's your opinion, you've simply misunderstood the point of the theory. The notion that...
That is all very well, but let us cultivate our garden.
I think they often coincide, but I don't think you have to be stupid to be happy. It's normal for people to get depressed by their intelligence,...
If this is the case it's news to me. Meh, if you say so.
Sorry, but I don't see how I'm going that. You are accusing me of not leaving the question open to possibilities, but I don't think it's...
I never said that people would not be able to listen to God. What I said was that the Bible is written in human languages, not God's. So the...
I don't doubt that they are sometimes relevant, but the frequency with which they are referenced, to the exclusion of a great deal of other...
You'd know, eh?
Maybe, but I'd say there are a lot more non-killing-people instances of religion than killing-people ones. I tend to fall on the side of "people...
Wow, referencing the Crusades, that's new and poignant and not at all lazy :D All I mean is that reason is traditionally used to argue things...
The Internet is worse than gay clubs for menfolks. Like, on the offchance that you DO find a naturally hot guy, they're always doing something or...
I don't think we can learn anything from reason.
So how would you account for the vast ambiguities created by numerous translations of the Bible? Surely if God wrote it to have one correct...
I understand that that is your point. But I do not see any way that it could be true. God effectively destroyed the only universal language we...
Well then I don't really understand why you were bothering to argue that maybe God can defy Barthes' theory with his writing, if you don't believe...
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