• SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If the premise of the question suggests the Bible is a rock upon which a strong house is built then I submit, rather, that house is built upon the clouds. The Bible itself is an assemblage of self-congratulatory and often self-contradictory allegory with the minimum viable basis in fact compiled over centuries to the benefit of a cynical, theocratic ruling class.

    Is it not better to stand firmly on the ground and regard your peers with one simple rule: to treat with them in all dealings as you would be treated, to deal in objective fact, and to eschew hypocrisy and cynical blandishments?

    No, as an atheist I don’t think it is I who has a house upon sand, neither clouds.

    (Edit: I’m grumpy today)