09-13-2015, 02:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-13-2015, 02:46 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
Well, you're welcome to your opinion on the matter, but you're also being awfully dismissive and choosing to focus entirely on the negative in the Bible. As I (and others) said, it contains whatever someone seeks within it. And it has ALSO inspired many great works of art, and many great thinkers over the centuries.
If it's not to your own personal tastes, that's fine, but seems rather overzealous when you try to dismiss any of the positive contributions that have come from it as well. I mean, honestly, saying that BACH wasn't inspired by it? Come on, that just doesn't hold water. And Copernicus was active in the church, and ran a chapter canonry for some years. Gregor Mendel would be another example along the same lines - he was a friar who did his research on the side.
There's no reason to be so absolutist about this. Good things have come out of Christianity as well. There's no purely black-and-white interpretation here.
If it's not to your own personal tastes, that's fine, but seems rather overzealous when you try to dismiss any of the positive contributions that have come from it as well. I mean, honestly, saying that BACH wasn't inspired by it? Come on, that just doesn't hold water. And Copernicus was active in the church, and ran a chapter canonry for some years. Gregor Mendel would be another example along the same lines - he was a friar who did his research on the side.
There's no reason to be so absolutist about this. Good things have come out of Christianity as well. There's no purely black-and-white interpretation here.