What if a custom is critically important but no one really knows why
So do we all. It is ideal if we can keep the good bits, understand what underlies them & lose the false beliefs & dubious ethics around them
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This is what he does with Bible. I'm with him that the genesis myths are probably super important in this way and should not be thrown away.
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Well, I think we're going to have to just agree to disagree.
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I don't think they're literally true. Just the compression of thousands of years of knowledge (of the pragmatic sort) worth decompressing.
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I find them very interesting historically & culturally. This is what I study after all. How ppl used religious narratives to find meaning.
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I think he would agree with this
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But we'd differ on what makes a belief false - whether it is unevidenced or doesn't help us thrive - so that doesn't help much.
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