More fuel for the fire, theology stuff Options

[streetshaman]

So yeah, I know some of you get all clenched up when religion is mentioned so feel free to wander about the poop thread for some ex-lax. For the rest of us who give a shit...

Here's a link for what will lead to good conversation and hopefully a potential pwning of the Dawkinsian ditto-heads, a review of what is looking to be my next book purchase:


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/...Karen-Armstrong


A juicy quote from the book:

Like all religious fundamentalists, the new athesists believe that they alone are in possession of the truth; like Christian fundamentalists they read scripture in an entirely literal manner and seem to never have heard of the long tradition of allegoric or Talmudic interpretation... Harris seems to imagine that biblical inspiration means that the Bible was actually "written by God." Hitchens assumes that faith is entirely dependent on a literal reading of the Bible, and that, for example, the discrepancies in the gospel infancy narratives prove the falseness of Christianity: "Either the gospels are in some sense literal truth, or the whole thing is a fraud and perhaps a moral one at that." Like Protestant fundamentalists, Dawkins has a simplistic view of the moral teaching of the Bible, taking it for granted that its chief purpose is to issue clear rules of conduct and provide us with "role models," which, not surprisingly, he finds lamentably inadequate. He also presumes that since the Bible claims to be inspired by God it must also provide scientific information. Dawkins' only point of disagreement with the Protestant fundamentalists is that he finds the Bible unreliable about science while they do not.

Should be a good read for anyone interested in the practice of religion, and wishes to understand the difference in mythos and logos and their application to modern theology. Plus pwning new atheists is always a joy. Radical my ass.

[Abrado]

Some party in my country is going to implement parities concerning inequality between sexes in parliament. Is it based on a belief that women are the weaker element when it comes to fight for representation in legislature ?

[Madden]

No, its because they arent loud enough, lulz.