upporting a literal translation of the Bible automatically means that they embrace ignorance? Even in the event that they are ignorant, how can ignorance be as nearly pernicious a thing as people who want to detonate a nuclear explosive so as to incur maximum casualties? Secondly, a literal interpretation doesn't make necessarily any one ignorant, it means they share a different view than you do.
because fundamentalism disallows things from changing whether good or bad and i've never heard of any fundamentalism that is remotely supportive of learning or new thought, after all it wouldn't be fundamentalism, would it?
if you teach only one way of looking at something and never look into another that might be more truthful that, is willful ignorence
And what do you propose to mitigate this global threat you have concocted?
i agree with jar it is a cult of ignorance, also it is purely anti-intellecualistic
And you would know this how?
if fundies believed a pure literalist view, they would believe trees have kings, the earth stood on pillars and jesus drew a sword from his mouth, but no they consider somethings metaphor, and only things they dislike at that
Why do you think people who believe in a literal translation of the Bible, which I myself maintain, invoke some sort of "con?" What are they conning for? And how deeply do you think this pervades society and how many literalists can you indict in this sweeping allegation?
they are conning themselves and other people into believing things that are not in the bible and beliefs that aren't shown to be true.
they believe parts they want and discard the parts they don't and change the meanings of the words they want so it reflects a belief that the text doesn't have
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