The only time I butt heads with people over religion is over the literal interpretation of the bible. Anyone who has played the telephone game knows when knowledge is passed down over not only time, but different languages, the sentences and meanings change. The concept, the bases is still intact, but the bias of the 'time' is still thee. How else do you explain the acceptance of slavery and the mention of dragons in the original texts?
It's when people use exact lines in the bible to support very unkind things that I get upset.
Okay, maybe I veered off course, but it's still about taking the subject material and accepting the substance while having an open mind that the source material is very old and written by those of another era.
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Date: 2012-11-21 04:22 am (UTC)From:The only time I butt heads with people over religion is over the literal interpretation of the bible. Anyone who has played the telephone game knows when knowledge is passed down over not only time, but different languages, the sentences and meanings change. The concept, the bases is still intact, but the bias of the 'time' is still thee. How else do you explain the acceptance of slavery and the mention of dragons in the original texts?
It's when people use exact lines in the bible to support very unkind things that I get upset.
Okay, maybe I veered off course, but it's still about taking the subject material and accepting the substance while having an open mind that the source material is very old and written by those of another era.
:)