All of you have been weighing heavy on my mind

DaveXA said

Well, we're dealing with different topics here. Sure a lot of it is intertwined, and requires unpacking, but we're delving beyond what we started with here. I'm not and never intended to try and make anyone here think anything. It's more than I can speak on in this thread and do it justice. If you genuinely want to discuss more, I'd be happy to do so via PM. If your intent is just to pick apart what I post here, I'm not interested in discussing further because we'd be getting far away from what my intent for participating was in the first place.

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I appreciate the offer; however, when it comes to religion, every time someone asks me if I genuinely want to discuss something, it sounds to me like the only genuine discussion is the one when I accept what they say without a rebuttal. I feel I am genuinely discussing the topic right now.

Adultery, homosexuality, misogyny... sure they all are different topics on their own, but they don't need to be unpacked separately in this context. I am making a very simple proposal: our values and views on those topics have changed; therefore religions need to apologize for what their texts say. Everything the Bible says is "the word of God" (meaning, taken literally), until something doesn't fit wit our current set of values or science disproves it, then it requires study to understand, or plain we can't understand, or it is just a parable. The fact is, as time goes by, more and more of what the Bible says shifts from "the word of God" to it requires study to understand, can't understand, or its a parable.