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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Textcritic, I don't mean the be rude, but what exactly was the point you were trying to make? You said quite a lot without actually going anywhere with it.
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Hmmm. That is a problem.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
My comments were made specifically regarding the video posted, that Christians get their "objective moral code" from the teachings in the Bible. Yet every time it can be demonstrated that the Bible is hardly moral, people pick and choose what to interpret literally, and what to interpret as a symbolic lesson (which as I said often doesn't make sense either) or even throw bits away entirely.
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Okay, fair enough. I didn't actually watch the video posted, but I will certainly go back and do so.
I think that what I was getting at is that far too often people are far too dismissive of ancient literature—not just biblical literature—on the basis that it is primitive, "immoral", or somehow irrelevant and meaningless. In actual fact, I'm fairly certain that there is and always will be much to be learned and appreciated in the thoughts and observations of a primitive society. So many things tend to be lost amid our own sense of moral and intellectual superiority.