How are intelligent, critical thinkers still religious?

dvpower

Jakkass wrote: »

Not at all dvpower anyone with any ability of reading comprehension will be able to determine that it was intended to be taken as non-fiction:

Two examples:




It would as I would see it be a clear example of confirmation bias to suggest that either of these were written with the intent of being fiction.

The clear intention is to record events that happened from the writers perspective. You might argue that the events were 100% tripe, but they certainly were never written with the intent of being fiction.

Its very clear that Harry Potter is intended to be non fiction, but depending on how people approach it, they can find lots of metephors and allegories in it.

Its not at all clear what the intention of many parts of the bible are: hard fact, allegory, metaphor, parable and depending on your bias, you could easily mix up allegory with literal truth (and, indeed many Christians diagree about parts of the bible along these lines).

I think its pretty much impossible for anyone to approach a book like the bible without carrying some level of confirmation bias.

ShooterSF

dvpower wrote: »

Its very clear that Harry Potter is intended to be non fiction, but depending on how people approach it, they can find lots of metephors and allegories in it.

Its not at all clear what the intention of many parts of the bible are: hard fact, allegory, metaphor, parable and depending on your bias, you could easily mix up allegory with literal truth (and, indeed many Christians diagree about parts of the bible along these lines).

I think its pretty much impossible for anyone to approach a book like the bible without carrying some level of confirmation bias.

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