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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 819946" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>Surely, you would be willing to admit that almost all holy books (with the possible exception of the Bhagavad Gita and other, select Eastern religious texts) contain commandments from "above" that are questionable; applying the same logic to the ones we, as individuals, prefer to those that we do not prefer, it stands to reason that only a few but the most fundamentalist folks take them as literal.</p><p></p><p>That is to say, that there are questionable directives in the Bible, but most reasonable Christians do not take them as literal, but rather as lessons in metaphorical form; are Muslims, en masse, not capable of the same sort of selective interpretation?</p><p></p><p>I only use the Bible/Christians because that is an easily recognizable faith to most of us and a large Western religion; I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts there would be questionable passages in the Torah, The Book of Mormon, etc, as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 819946, member: 31608"] Surely, you would be willing to admit that almost all holy books (with the possible exception of the Bhagavad Gita and other, select Eastern religious texts) contain commandments from "above" that are questionable; applying the same logic to the ones we, as individuals, prefer to those that we do not prefer, it stands to reason that only a few but the most fundamentalist folks take them as literal. That is to say, that there are questionable directives in the Bible, but most reasonable Christians do not take them as literal, but rather as lessons in metaphorical form; are Muslims, en masse, not capable of the same sort of selective interpretation? I only use the Bible/Christians because that is an easily recognizable faith to most of us and a large Western religion; I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts there would be questionable passages in the Torah, The Book of Mormon, etc, as well. [/QUOTE]
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