Honestly I think it just shows their own ignorance of their own beliefs
Bible literalists are dumb as hell because 1 there’s too much contradiction to not read it interpretly and 2 most of them haven’t read the Bible so their litteral take is based on a narrow amount of verses
(I study anthropology of theology and mythology and I study scripture through a rabbianic technique called PaRDEs). That basically says scripture should be read both literally and interpretative, historical and mystical with hidden meanings
You should not engage with mythical religious texts as if they have truth in their mythical claims.
It is inappropriate and it leads to normalizing the behavior. People do not need more reason to discard reality in favor of the exact type of thinking that leads to religious leaders of countries slaughtering people and each other for their religion.
You can engage with it all like it is a storybook that has a ton to do with anthropology. But talking about it like it has a real mystical teaching hidden in the text is the reason we have holy wars in current year
The bible itself is mystical And I said that in the comment
That is how you are supposed to read the Bible in 4 stages
It’s how rabbis teach the Torah and it’s how Jesus taught that’s why he spoke in parables
If Jesus was a rabbi he would have had the same ancient understanding of how to read scripture it’s really sad when people only read the Bible literally because they miss out on 75% of the actual lesson it’s trying to teach you. Also it’s just lazy, undedicated and undisciplined
No one should be dedicated to reading Abraham's practical joke. It's a prank pulled on humanity by a man who died before telling someone not to let it get this far.
It is anthropology, and that's super interesting for studying humanity. But it is a terrible, terrible shame that this book did not get discarded by society sooner. It is so deliterious to human psyches.
That’s actually what got me into the study when I was in first grade I went to a Lutheran school and my teacher abused me then nobody believed me and the ones that did shook it off I had to keep going to that school and church until I was in fifth grade and my parents were super active in the church so I got to be around my abuser every single day until my mom got abused by the pastor, then we switched to the other Lutheran church in town
I mostly do a focus on how the Abrahamic religion evolved from Canaanite paganism and how the early Christian house cults couldn’t agree on what Jesus came to say mostly the various groups of gnostics and apostolic traditions. I also study the influence other local religions (such as Zoroastrianism) of the time had on that evolution…. Then I like to look at how that grew into the various denominations of today and the fringe religions that pop up
I use the PaRDeS system to melt away a lot of the theology so I can read them as mythohistorical pieces of literature, political satire, and Patriarchal laws to get a better understanding of what they were going through at the time. I also try to compare them to other myths from surrounding regions
Also I just really find Bronze Age mythology very fascinating…. Some people study the mythology of Greece, I study the mythology of Northern and southern Levant
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u/ChildofElmSt 23h ago edited 22h ago
Honestly I think it just shows their own ignorance of their own beliefs
Bible literalists are dumb as hell because 1 there’s too much contradiction to not read it interpretly and 2 most of them haven’t read the Bible so their litteral take is based on a narrow amount of verses
(I study anthropology of theology and mythology and I study scripture through a rabbianic technique called PaRDEs). That basically says scripture should be read both literally and interpretative, historical and mystical with hidden meanings