Posted: Mar 09, 2017 10:09 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Highly intelligent people can be religious because they're semantically/linguistically flexible enough to take a non-literal view of scripture. I got a 1st at university and have just found my feet in Christianity. I plan to attend church regularly and draw great strength, optimism and comfort from my faith. All you inflexible, religion denying atheists are missing out on the beneficial aspects of participating in a faith imo.
I can't speak for others, but I can't help being inflexible, I can't bend far enough to accept most the the BS in religion. If you're not taking scriptures as literal, how far does this flexibility go? Are there limits? If scripture is so malleable, what makes it special? Who decides what's acceptable interpretation, and which is blasphemy?