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No Hell?: A mega-church ‘heretic’ takes on evangelical orthodoxy

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I always find it interesting that the word "heretic" comes from Greek meaning "able to choose".

No sane person can take the bible literally. It's a piece of paper containing text that was written long ago when people didn't had this much technology.

Plenty of sane people throughout history have taken the bible literally. Technology didt start with electricity either. You should show more thought and less venom.

They didn't have much of a choice, either that or they would have been burned for being a heretic.

More thought:

Religion preaches that we should simply accept stuff as fact without proof. The Bible condemns knowledge, it says that we are all sinners by default because our ancestors have accessed the tree of knowledge.

No sane person accepts baseless assumptions without proof. If I would tell you that your great great great grand parent was raised by mice would you believe me?

Sorry but currently religion is the true venom.

Nice try but you make less sense and look more desperate the more you write.

1) There have been and currently are tons of people who believe the bible to be true who are not being threatened with being burned as a heretic. It's obvious that you don't approve but thats irrelevant. Even the statement "They didn't have much of a choice…" doesn't make sense. People don't BELIEVE things out of external coercion. Belief is epistemically basic and therefore not simply controlled by the will.

2) Any sentence that starts off "Religion teaches…" shows profound ignorance. What religion? Surely you know that every overarching explanatory system (worldview) does not teach the same thing. The worldview your promoting right now is a case in point.

3) The philosophical school of Logical Positivism has been dead for over sixty years for good reason. It can't satisfy its own demands.

4) You believe plenty of things without your brand of "proof". I suggest you read Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason among other things.

5) The Bible does not condemn knowledge. It teaches that true knowledge is rejected by people because they find it distasteful and aborent, not because of a lack of veracity or evidence. Read Romans 1 to see the textual basis for this.

6) Just out of curiosity: When do you think "technology" started?

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