the Bible and its consequences have been a disaster for the Christian faith
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this is my main conclusion from the Reformation so far
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Christianity would have been better served by oral transmission alone an actual text is insufficiently protean and contains a ton of attack surfaces for correct but dumb criticisms
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sola fide is a morally transparently awful doctrine that no one would have bothered with absent scriptural support and im still mad about people actually reading the Bible closely enough to find justification for it why couldnt Luther have fixated on something less repugnant
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Im sure there are some advantages to textual bases for belief but my hunch is that they become net impediments once ppl become literate at rates sufficient to actual read the text anyway thats what ive learned all hail the Christianity of letterless medieval peasants
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this is why it was good when the supreme court stopped using a textual basis for its decisions
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i too support marbury v madison
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