Oft Quoted, but Rarely Completely Read
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Yes BT, There is a hugely significant difference to reading the whole book yourself, and only ever hearing the happy, feel-goody parts that your preacher will tell you. Your preacher will tell you how loving his god is, and how wonderful the afterlife will be. But he'll never tell you how his god kills innocent children or forces rape victims to marry their attackers.
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I daresay that one or two theists could work this out -- particularly if they actually listened to the video. As it is, they are merely engaging in typical nit-picking and whining. In the total absence of evidence, it's all that they can do.
I could change the video's title to "Oft Quoted, but Rarely *Completely* Read", but I refuse to bow to theistic whining.
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The Bible is the most quoted because Christians keep using it to promote their views. It is rarely read because if it were read more, Christians would reject most of it because of its violence, genocide, sexism, and intolerance.
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Try listening to the video.
An oxymoron describes a phrase such as "jumbo shrimp" -- conjoined and contradictory. (Contradictory merely describes examples such as the Bible where verses say completely different things.) Your theist buddy misapplied the term -- aside from being incorrect in his argument.
Try coming up with something valid.
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Like the guy below says, your title is an oxymoron. Unless the quoter is clairvoyent he must have read it, and so it is either: "rarely quoted and rarely read" or "often quoted and often read" and could even be "often read and rarely quoted" if it didn't inspire quotation, but cannot be the exact combination you managed to choose. You (or someone who tells you aboutit) have to read it in order to quote it in most cases.
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It's a puzzle for you to figure out.
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Treblaine 1 year ago 2
@Treblaine
Good point! The first are ignorantly obstinate, the latter are obstinately ignorant. I think that persisting in delusion despite being acquainted with the evidence requires more of a deliberate cognitive distortion, while founding delusion largely on another's word lacks intellectual rigor.
The point of the video is that open-minded truth-seekers who actually compare the Bible's contradictions are more likely to overcome dissonance and deconvert.
musekiteer 1 year ago
I really like this video & I urge you musekiteer, to please consider a re-upload it with a new title. I think that the words in the title (and tags) aren't common enough to show up on searches. I just hate to see this vid sit here being ignored....it's the kind that can make a fence sitter really think about reality. Just my humble opinion.
bodeezy 1 year ago
@bodeezy
I'm willing to rethink the tags, but not the title. Why? The title upsets nitpicking Christians who are unable to come to terms with the realities within the content.
musekiteer 1 year ago