Have you fully read a religious text?

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The Christian and Jewish Bibles, and the Quran.

Yes, all three of them "spoke" to me.

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The Christian and Jewish Bibles, and the Quran.

Yes, all three of them "spoke" to me.

To which religious faith do you adhere if the sacred text of those three all "spoke" to you? Why did you settle upon your current faith instead of a different one?

I adhere to Christianity because I was raised a Christian in a Christian country: it's the only faith I understand "from the inside", so I'll never be forced to wonder if my background keeps me from being fully integrated into my religion. Similarly, if I had been raised a Jew, I would be Jewish, and if I had been raised in Islam, I would be a Muslim (the same goes for Hinduism, Buddhism, and so on and so forth). With that said, I think that a lot can be learned from studying the texts of other religions: as an outsider looking in, certain things are bound to strike you as novel, and if you investigate those lines as far as they will take you, you will earn a new - perhaps purer - perspective on your own faith. And that can only be a good thing.

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The Christian and Jewish Bibles, and the Quran.

Yes, all three of them "spoke" to me.

Did you rate them by your moral standards?

Morality is for philosophers: I read religious texts for their poetical value.

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The Christian and Jewish Bibles, and the Quran.

Yes, all three of them "spoke" to me.

Did you rate them by your moral standards?

Morality is for philosophers: I read religious texts for their poetical value.

And here I thought morality was for everyone. Oh well.

Regards
DL

There's a time and a place for morality, and it's not when you're reading a religious text. The reason is that morality is an abstraction, an inference, a conjecture, and is thus, like a demiurge, capable of error. By contrast, religion speaks of life directly, in the same way that poetry speaks of life directly, which is why both poetry and religion (properly so-called) are irrefutable.

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I do not see a text that begins with a talking serpent and ends with a seven headed monster as speaking to life, as those fictional characters have none.

Myths have lessons we can use in life but they do not represent life.

Mother Goose is a children's myth, and quite useful, but it also does not represent life.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear you say that.

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I do not see a text that begins with a talking serpent and ends with a seven headed monster as speaking to life, as those fictional characters have none.

Myths have lessons we can use in life but they do not represent life.

Mother Goose is a children's myth, and quite useful, but it also does not represent life.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear you say that.

Nice argument to show why. Oh wait. Not.

I'm sorry to hear that you'd rather enslave yourself to your emanations, than open your mind to life's eternal possibilities.