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Cyclical authority of holy books

Zombrex · 2007-12-08 01:08:11

How can a holy book be justification for its own authority? This is a genuine question. If someone actually knows a logical answer to this, even if it requires belief in the supernatural, that's fine. My understand (because I was told this by theists) used to be that God confirms to theists, through some kind of spiritual…

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#122 08-07-2008 08:06AM

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Memnoch wrote: »

While you are happy in your belief, I'm happy in the knowledge that if everyone thought like you and was bound by the shackles of religion then we would still be burning heretics at the stake, the Earth would be the centre of the universe and the sun would be revolving around it.

So you are happy in deliberate ignorance of history? OK then. :rolleyes:

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