I wish people would stop arguing scripture with Christians…
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I wish people would stop arguing scripture with Christians like the Bible is a legal document worth parsing?
Every time I see someone (atheist or ex-christian, or agnostic or whatever ) verse by verse with a believer, debating what a passage "really" means, I get the ick. "Actually Jesus never condemned homosexuality." "Actually that verse is mistranslated." "Actually the original Hebrew says—"
I don't care what it actually says. None of it happened. It's not a nuanced legal text with a correct reading waiting to be uncovered, it's a collection of Bronze and Iron Age campfire stories that got compiled, edited, and politically weaponized for a couple thousand years. Debating the "true meaning" of a passage is like debating whether Cinderella's stepsisters really deserved it. There's no true meaning. There's no meaning at all beyond what people project onto it.
When we argue interpretation, we're implicitly accepting the premise that the interpretation matters . that if we could just get the reading right, the book would have something real to say. It doesn't. The whole exercise(to me ) props up the idea that this is a text worth that level of scrutiny in the first place and feeds into their delusion that this has some sort of validity
The actual argument isn't "you're misreading it." It's "none of this is true, so what it says is irrelevant."
#religion
Every time I see someone (atheist or ex-christian, or agnostic or whatever ) verse by verse with a believer, debating what a passage "really" means, I get the ick. "Actually Jesus never condemned homosexuality." "Actually that verse is mistranslated." "Actually the original Hebrew says—"
I don't care what it actually says. None of it happened. It's not a nuanced legal text with a correct reading waiting to be uncovered, it's a collection of Bronze and Iron Age campfire stories that got compiled, edited, and politically weaponized for a couple thousand years. Debating the "true meaning" of a passage is like debating whether Cinderella's stepsisters really deserved it. There's no true meaning. There's no meaning at all beyond what people project onto it.
When we argue interpretation, we're implicitly accepting the premise that the interpretation matters . that if we could just get the reading right, the book would have something real to say. It doesn't. The whole exercise(to me ) props up the idea that this is a text worth that level of scrutiny in the first place and feeds into their delusion that this has some sort of validity
The actual argument isn't "you're misreading it." It's "none of this is true, so what it says is irrelevant."
#religion
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