Maybe this is simply a problem of world experience. You seem to have a view of religious scholars that does not align with reality, including not being able to comprehend why someone would want to receive a degree in religious studies.
It’s a lack of empathy and experience that drives you on this issue. Try to have a conversation with some of these individuals before indulging yourself
Ok. That’s fine. Perhaps instead of viewing them entirely in ways that allow you to look down your nose at them you could instead try to understand them and find out what systems lead to religious beliefs - including religious belief in people who are objectively smarter than you are.
You don’t help anyone by treating them entirely in this sneering, beneath you way. It might make you feel better about yourself, but it doesn’t actually help any of the people you profess to actually care about.
No. Many of them aren’t. I get the jab, but I think reducing everyone who has strange or perplexing, even illogical views to just being “an idiot or a grifter” isn’t productive.
Without getting too /r/atheism, it is funny to see the lengths many Christian scholars will go to try and justify that line.
“Oh, well they were probably actually referring to this giant arch that might have once been translated as “the eye of the needle”, meaning that they were saying it’s really easy to get into heaven”
Like what the fuck? What do you guys think is the point of the passage then?
And these aren’t like yokels and grifters. They’re like PhDs in Christian Theology. The religion at a point is just almost entirely concerned with making up translations and it literally always has been
Staying home is a goofy waste of your only real voice as a citizen. Voting third party is fine, and the people acting like they’re forcing you at gun point to vote for Biden “or else” are little better than the fascists they say they’re against
Actually I’m just going to a presidential election and then participating. I’m not going to win, but that’s not my fault.
I get it, it’s your first election, it’s very special and important to you that everyone votes exactly like you do. And I get it, because the Democratic Party is investing a lot of money into messaging campaigns right now to “spread the word” about how it’s “just a binary election”. That’s alright.
I live in a swing state. I’ve voted democrat in the elections every year since I could vote. I’m not going to this year. I guess they should have done better. 🤷♂️
Trump and Biden can get prisons. The former is a crook, the latter has invested more money into ‘more cops, more surveillance!’ than anyone since 1994.
Are you unaware of the extremely basic fact that essentially every president in US history has relied incredibly strongly on a wide team of advisors and cabinet members.
They teach you that in middle school civics. Did you think the presidency was like in a movie where it’s just one guy who decides to do everything he does? Do you think Biden sits there with a calculator running the numbers??
I’d prefer if he didn’t, but ultimately my belief in democracy and leftist policies outweighs my drive to side with a minor fascist over a major fascist.
You vote for your conscience buddy. You can be a far right Democrat, I’ll be a far left Republican. It’s cute.
Yes, in his perspective he should look at himself and say “wow, I shouldn’t run again”. He did not, because he likes the power and pats on the back the Democratic Party gives him for clinging to life
Maybe this is simply a problem of world experience. You seem to have a view of religious scholars that does not align with reality, including not being able to comprehend why someone would want to receive a degree in religious studies.
It’s a lack of empathy and experience that drives you on this issue. Try to have a conversation with some of these individuals before indulging yourself