What is the point of studying "religion" if one doesn't take the teachings literally? Aren't we supposed to have "faith" that these things, despite all the evidence of the senses to the contrary, are somehow "true?" Why keep attached to beliefs that always were literature, and that have held people back or even caused misery in the past? Why should I or you try to tread a thread between old and new? Why not just discard the old for the new, dump all that garbage, and start over?
Well that is what people tried to do at the beginning of the so-called "modern era" -- which is now over.
Posted by cholte at August 17, 2004 09:44 PM