Quote Originally Posted by chrono View Post
Person living inside a fish=Jonah. Man with supehuman strength because of his hair=samson. Talking snake=Genesis.
Because I'm already in a really bad mood, and don't have time to go through the last page of posts I'm gonna start with this little bit. There's many ways to interpret the Bible, or any other holy book, so why do you choose the most outlandish things possible? Do you not suppose that perhaps those stories could be meant to be taken as allegory? The same goes for the creation myth in Genesis, if taken as allegory, with the assumption that days could mean any amount of time (since this all occured before humans existed, and any god would exist on another plane of time/space, it's not all that far-fetched.


As for my reason why I'm not religious....I think it was Gypsy who asked that, I've had enough stuff happen in my life and in my past, and read enough about other people and current/historical events and come to the conclusion that any god represented by the core religions who could let such terrible things happen to his/her creations, just doesn't fit into my view of what a god is.

One of my best friends put her beliefs in a way that made me think, though. That there may be a vague guiding force somewhere, not really anything with a name that we can petition, but just a force up there that guides and shapes things as he sees. Everything happens for a reason, though that reason may not be apparent, or may even be abandoned in favor of helping you learn an even more important lesson about yourself.

I'm not sure if I agree with that or not, but it's certainly a refreshing way of looking at things that doesn't seem so...empty, as atheism/agnosticism.