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    192 years ago

    Why does that feel like a non sequitur? The whole thing seems to be about forgiving an asshole for being a dick seven times a day as long as he says sorry (especially since being a dick is a given), but where does the little ones even come in?

    Kind of bad advice, either way.

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        42 years ago

        Ah, that makes sense. I mean, at least more sense at least. Thanks for the context!

        I probably won’t ever get around to reading those old books (which as an atheist makes sense, although I always find it funny athiests know the Bible more than religious people do lol).

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          32 years ago

          I was just angry about this the other day while I was driving home and listening to the Data over Dogma podcast (theist but very open minded Bible scholar chats with an atheist about the history of the bible) I am getting kinda annoyed at this lifestyle.

          Maybe I just don’t want to believe in sky-daddy. Is that so much to ask? Maybe I don’t want to have a pile of books on Bible text analysis and spend my free time studying that fuck awful book anymore. Maybe I don’t want to try to be an expert on philosophy, logic, evolutionary biology, Big Bang cosmology, what random really means in QM theory, Pali Canon, the Vedas, the Korean, and human+animal psychology.

          I feel like every time I am on some site or talking to someone about this subject like I have to dwarf their knowledge on every single avenue of attack when the burden of proof shouldn’t be on me. It is their fucking claim, fucking defend it!

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            22 years ago

            Oh, I heard about that podcast-- I think a host was a guest on Scathing Athiest.

            What I learned from dating a preachers daughter a long time ago is that at least all that prep in evolution, psychology, etc, made me a much better, more knowledge person (which helped a lot in going to college, grad school, etc). I appreciate that aspect, even if it sucked at the time and involved a lot of heated debate and temporary blocked AIM accounts.

            A good push for a bad reason, especially since they inevitably could not see reason. Some people aren’t worth the effort, but I would hate to have to put on that fight for family members or other loved ones.

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        22 years ago

        I miss that sub as well. I wish they had a once a week open mic kinda deal.

        Chatgpt works wonders for this btw. I noticed something in Mark I didn’t get a few months ago. No one responded to my question in that sub but chatgpt was there ready to engage. It is loaded with biblical scholarship and can even do a bit of speculation.

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            12 years ago

            Yeah I appreciate the warning and I have noticed it has a slant. Still for nitty gritty stuff it is amazing. Mark for example is a fairly terse. So I had it do a unique word count on it and compared it to unique word counts in other Greek Documents and confirmed it. That would have been a fairly painful project only a few months ago.

            I took your advice and posted. https://lemmy.world/post/2354097 I guess I have Mark on my mind today. Haha