• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yes

    The problem is religious texts are generally vague and come from cultures hundreds or thousands of years ago. That lets people claim they speak for god or know “the truth” and cherry pick and twist meanings until they get the answer they want. I’ve listened in on bible studies where they pick over the tiniest word and inflate it into a huge story. They’d make all sorts of assumptions about it “This is what they meant!” I’d be thinking “Really? You got all of that out of one word that can be interpreted a number of ways?”

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      8 months ago

      Yep, but it also means its there fault for choosing to ignore science because of a human “error”. Its not even “gods word” at that point, its just another humans opinions.