polymathwannabe comments on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 April 2015 09:41:28PM *  -2 points [-]

Thank you for your answer.

Would you care to say a few words about the variety of Christianity you favour?

I am an evangelic christian and within my belief the gospels override everything else that is or can be seen as contradictory. (I don´t read the Torah since I am not a Jew and I do not seek wisdome in the old testament even though I have had a surprinsingly wise teacher who taught me how to interpret that old rubbish in ways that actually made sense to me.) See, if I believe Jesus was divine, I have to value the words of Christ higher than the words of his followers and mortal predecessors.

I don't know how LW compares with other places occupied by large numbers of intelligent atheists, but my experience generally is that a large fraction of atheists are former theists, many of them former serious and well informed theists.

Yes, my hope was and is that someone like that will answer my question. You are right, your answers do not impress me, you seem to fail to understand important things about christianity. I can come up with much better counter arguments myself, but I really appreciate the honest try. If you would like me to tell you about what I think might be wrong in your picture of what christianity is about, you can PM me or ask me to answer here.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 April 2015 10:18:50PM 0 points [-]

Besides the entire Old Testament, do you also disregard the books of Acts, Epistles and Apocalypse?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 April 2015 10:20:56PM *  1 point [-]

They have lower priority than what could be the words of God. I do not disregard the New testament, I just "like" the gospels more than the rest of it.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 April 2015 10:23:24PM 0 points [-]

Do you agree completely with the Church's opinion on which books should be part of the Bible and which books shouldn't?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 April 2015 10:36:43PM 0 points [-]

I take it you refer to christian churches. No. But I haven't fully read any non-canon gospels yet. Do note this is off topic, PM me or continue our old chat instead, you have not answered there yet :)