Reply #31: I don't hate atheists... [View All]

[Sal316]

...in fact, I don't "hate" anyone. Not my ex-wife, not the guy who held me at knife-point 15 years ago, not anyone.

Hate allows people to control who I am, how I feel, and how my life goes. Besides, it takes way too much energy.

But yes, atheism, particularly the zealots, suffer from the same problem as fundamentalists.

That is, literalism. They read texts, whether it be the Bible or whatever, through a literalist lens. They remove all cultural and historical context from the words. While fundamentalists take the mythos to be established scientific fact, atheist zealots completely ignore the mythos.

Both miss the forest for the trees.

Both are either unwilling or unable to view the whole picture.

Scripture is to be read for what it says, and then looked at from a bird's eye view to see the big picture. In order to do so, one must be able process both literal and esoteric meanings of the stories while being viewed through the proper historical and cultural context.

The inability to do so indicates an immature intellect.