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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
I love the Bible. The Bible can teach you amazing things, truths that speak to you in ways similar to art, music, or any other great work of literature. When expecting to get empirical truths from it, however, you obviously run into trouble. Looking for a truth of the human predicament, or simply your own predicament? Read well, the Bible, the Koran, whatever, can give you fantastic insights. Looking for the exact date the planet Earth came into existence? Not so much.
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Sure, and if everyone treated the bible the way you do, there'd be nothing wrong. The problem is, way too many try and use the bible for the exact reasons you stated it shouldn't be used for, and it's detrimental to society and makes people come off as uneducated, intolerant and spiteful of others who don't share their non sensical beliefs.