RE: "Ah yes...no doubt learned scholars from the School of Politically-Correct Relativism. Please provide your reference and translators' credentials."
Let me get this right. We can't agree on what Bush or Kerry did 30 YEARS AGO in an age where we photo, video, write, record keep and store HUGE amounts of information.
But we can repeat whole chapters of words spoken 2000 YEARS AGO with no question as to their authenticity and accuracy. This even though they were restated from memory, translated and retranslated, and edited over and over again for thousands of years by MEN who had their own hugely biased agendas.
But it gets better, now we believe that those written interpretations and recollections are the TRUTH by which all things must be decided?
Assuming you believe that the words of the bible were once the TRUTH, what could possibly make you believe that in the many hands they've passed through since, in the many translations, interpretations and DISCRETIONARY changes they've gone through since, the accuracy is as great as you believe? That, and that alone, is an act of faith that seems to me to border on insanity.
Why can't we simply take the best of a wonderful and wise teaching and use our given talents to find the right path? Why do we need to have it laid out for us so that we need make no choices for ourselves? I can't believe that such a narrow path was scripted in the grand scheme of things.
If there is a God and an afterlife for the pious, then I believe that those that wrap themselves in faith and scripture and judge others meanly and narrowly, will find their just rewards. Unfortunately for them, I don't think they'll like those "just rewards." |
