Quote Originally Posted by Shibumi View Post
Nope.

Just "no", mate.

Either we take everything symbolic (in which case there is no christian god and who would care about the bible) or we take nothing symbolic and god is a megalomaniac psycho that for some reason stopped interfering with our lives. Either or, nothing any thinking person would be much interested in.

Atheists do not pick and choose, we see it as either or.

Believers are doing the picking.

Hence my statement, that I respect some nutto hearing voices more than a man following religious dogma.


So you deal in absolutes? That makes you fundamentalists.

Everyone picks and chooses. The use of "you people" was to demonstrate that.