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Fortinbras Armstrong

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11. You could look at it that way, if you want to believe that the Vatican is always wrong

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 10:21 AM

Nov 2013

However, I suggest that the last paragraph

The fundamentalist approach is dangerous, for it is attractive to people who look to the Bible for ready answers to the problems of life. It can deceive these people, offering them interpretations that are pious but illusory, instead of telling them that the Bible does not necessarily contain an immediate answer to each and every problem. Without saying as much in so many words, fundamentalism actually invites people to a kind of intellectual suicide. It injects into life a false certitude, for it unwittingly confuses the divine substance of the biblical message with what are in fact its human limitations.

Is something that even you could agree with.

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Monarchy Newest Reality Nov 2013 #1

Laziness. Ilsa Nov 2013 #2

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k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #3

In other words, the problem isn't *my* religion, trotsky Nov 2013 #4

We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem dimbear Nov 2013 #5

This statement is wrong: rrneck Nov 2013 #6

+1,000. There are bottom feeders of every persuasion. But cults do dumb people down. freshwest Nov 2013 #7

In 1994, the Vatican put out a document on fundamentalism Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #8

Sounds like they are saying edhopper Nov 2013 #9

You could look at it that way, if you want to believe that the Vatican is always wrong Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #11

The fundamentalist worldview and way of acting may be dangerous skepticscott Nov 2013 #14

Since you are an atheist, you clearly accept NO interpretation of scripture. Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #17

I responded to it directly skepticscott Nov 2013 #20

Yes I can agree with that edhopper Nov 2013 #16

So tell us, please skepticscott Nov 2013 #10

I do not intend to give a treatise on religious doubt, Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #12

And judging by your lack of any substantive response skepticscott Nov 2013 #13

No, I believe that you are an atheist who actually has no real interest in religion Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #18

Sheesh, could you be any more shallow and presumptuous? skepticscott Nov 2013 #19