Akvod on 15 November 2009
| The_vagabond7 said: In practice, I greatly prefer the liberal religious. But as you said you have a choice of being completely fucking backwater nuts, or being intellectually dishonest by quote mining the bible to fit the modern moral and social zeitgeist. For the record, I'm an atheist. And yes, my problem with the catholic church (at least the problem being discussed) is one of hypocrisy, not wealth. If you're going to say it's ok to be rich, fine. But if you're going to espouse the teachings of a man, and try to indoctrinate as many people with his book, the least you could do is make some appearance of taking what the guy said seriously. |
So you're either giving an ultimatum of being either an Atheist or being a conservative and literal believer.
Also, you don't believe that there can be multiple and subjective interpretations of religious texts? Also do you just want religion to magically dissapear, or everyone to read the texts literally and go back to the dark ages? Either way is an unrealistic, idealistic, and unproductive wishful thinking.
