Imagine being such a persecuted group in America that you get to blast spam mail to everyone in your community in the name of religion with no repercussions.
Imagine being such a persecuted group in America that you get to blast spam mail to everyone in your community in the name of religion with no repercussions.
Fixed your strawman for you.
You mean like the four links I already provided indicating that there were traces of historical fact in the Bible?
If you just want to argue around a strawman binaryism if your own projected claim that the Bible is inerrant, have fun, but I’ve got better things to do.
Fwiw, I appreciate what you tried to do. I enjoy reading about the facts that people manage to separate from the fiction. Religion shouldn’t be a thing, but even if all people stopped believing in it, the texts shouldn’t be destroyed like some people would want. I find that silly… hating something so much… it’s energy better spent elsewhere
Honestly if people stopped believing in it the academic study would shrink but improve so much.
A lot of the field is kind of crap and deserving of skepticism, with too little effort to correct for anchoring and survivorship biases.
But yes, sometimes I can find that discussing the academic study of the Bible is as obtuse with some atheists as with evangelicals.
I don’t take it personally though. It’s not a dead religion and a lot of people have trauma relationships with the subject because of things the live remnants of the traditions do. I was fortunate enough not to be born into it and to have spent most of my childhood not even knowing who the heck ‘Jesus’ was supposed to be. It was a huge advantage personally and a huge advantage in seeing past the bullshit when I got around to reading the material.
Not everyone was so fortunate, so I generally have empathy for those who take that more close minded approach even if I do my best to provide the objective information relevant to the conversation.
Appreciate your comment though!
No. Just like when an episode of Star Trek mentions WWII, it doesn’t magically make Star Trek real, lmao