what started me down this path were the smartass remarks about fundamentalists not reading the bible or not reading it in the 'right spirit'
I understand where these sentiments come from, believe me, and I do not mean to be harsh in my response to them. But they are catty. As in, mindless and gossipy. Of course fundamentalists read the bible. And they read it in the 'spirit' that is 'right' to them. I don't agree with them, but I don't do myself or my beliefs (I will call them instincts) good service by insisting that they are wrong because I am just oh so sure I am right. And, therefore, smarter and closer to 'truth' (god)...I think this is what rb is getting at. And there is no more earthy texture and substance to not believing than there is to believing. It's what you do with it that matters. Everything is relative. That's what I suspect. And the pivot point, which may reside somewhere around the ideas of wisdom and clarity, renders all other psychological matters irrelevant.
That is what I tend to believe. At this point in my life.
But really, I have to thank you, because if it weren't for this conversation, I wouldn't have realized that I don't believe in truth and reason.
oh, and I also left out that it twerked me a little to see self-proclaimed atheists saying that christians aren't reading the bible in the right spirit...
what the?
