If there are parts in the bible that you don't understand, just go with it
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No, if there are parts in the bible that I don't understand, then I'll question them. If the answer doesn't satisfy my questioning, then I will not believe it.
If there are parts in the bible that you don't understand, just go with it
I guess I'm not brave enough to cast off my intellectual honesty and integrity. Thank goodness there are people like you out there who are willing to engage in the willing abidcation of critical thought. Without you guys I'd have to cook my own french fries at McDonald's.
Do not research. Do not question. Do not doubt. Do not analyze. Just read it, let your pastor tell you what to think, and be a good little Christian. Sleep, my little soldier. Sllllleeeeep.
That's the dumbest advice ever. Yeah sure it sounds stupid and contradictory and doesn't make any sense, just believe it.
Imagine if one of your co workers says that your boss likes to come into work on wednesdays with an elephant stuffed animal stuffed into his pants. You may not understand it but just go with it.
Translation: "Do not think."
This anti-intellectualism is a problem. Get educated. Think about everything, especially the stuff you don't understand.
That is a classic piece of brainwashing.
If you don't understand it - QUESTION it.
9 times out of 10, you'll get an answer that is even more irrelevant because the guy giving you the answer ALSO doesn't know.
The bible is DESIGNED to be confusing, because as soon as you do understand it, the sooner you know it is a crock of bullshit.
I do not have anything witty, interesting or original to say, thus I say the first words that came into my mind, when I read this.
HURR DURR HURR
@anevilmeme:
People who go with the bible: Christians
People who understand the bible: Atheists
People who both understand and go with the bible: Sociopaths
How can I "go with it" if I don't even understand it?
What if the commandment means something like "You must eat roast chicken every Tuesday," but I can't figure that out from the wording? How can I "go with it" then? I might misinterpret the text to mean "garrote homosexuals" or something, and then I'd go around doing something the Bible DIDN'T tell me to do, and worse, I'd be neglecting my duty to eat chicken on Tuesday without even knowing it! This is serious business! One misstep and I'll be sucking down brimstone fumes for the rest of eternity!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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