I personally don't believe in any god or gods as I'm an atheist but I often find believers making claims about how god operates and what she wants. I think it is fair to say that the only reference point to learn of god's will is the bible (or whatever other holy book there may be for a given religion). However, people so often pick and choose what can be taken literally and what must not be taken literally. On what basis do you pick and choose? I would think that if god hand a hand in writing it, she would mean what she says and all of it would have to be taken literally. But when people do take all of it literally, we call them extremists and fundamentalists. My argument is that these extremist and fundamentalist wacko's are the ones most true to the religion. Doesn't anybody else see a problem with that? So again I ask, if you don't take the bible, q'uran, etc. literally, on what basis do you pick and choose god's will really is?
2007-10-19
11:57:21
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