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The question of the snake in Genesis.
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<blockquote data-quote="Standing_Ultraviolet" data-source="post: 66697863" data-attributes="member: 266500"><p>It's likely that you would have had a somewhat similar impression of the Bible if you had grown up in a culture where the Koran was seen as the holy book (although, given the strong positive feelings that Muslims have toward some of the stories contained in the Bible, it would have been somewhat different). I've read both, and did not end up agreeing with etither (although I preferred the Bible from a literary standpoint because, in English, the Koran is as dry as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Coast" target="_blank">Skeleton Coast</a>). My religious path was a result of striving to come to an interpretation of the Bible that I saw as viable, though. It went from a cultural Christianity, to fundamentalism, to Catholicism, and finally to where I am now. That path would have been very different had I not started out with cultural Christianity.</p><p></p><p>Our views are shaped by the cultures that we grow up in. You can reach a conclusion on your own, and still have it heavily influenced by the society that you live in. It's not that people don't have choices outside of societal bounds (if they didn't, I wouldn't be a secular humanist), but it's incredibly naive to believe that your response to reading a holy book or any other sort of religious or philosophical text aren't shaped by your experiences and the society that you live in. I'm very much a product of the many factors that have shaped me as a person, even though I obviously still have significant freedom. At no point in my search for truth did I consider Hinduism or consider becoming a Sikh or Jain, because those options weren't at the forefront of my mind. They were possibilities for me, but ones that were very unlikely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Standing_Ultraviolet, post: 66697863, member: 266500"] It's likely that you would have had a somewhat similar impression of the Bible if you had grown up in a culture where the Koran was seen as the holy book (although, given the strong positive feelings that Muslims have toward some of the stories contained in the Bible, it would have been somewhat different). I've read both, and did not end up agreeing with etither (although I preferred the Bible from a literary standpoint because, in English, the Koran is as dry as the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Coast"]Skeleton Coast[/URL]). My religious path was a result of striving to come to an interpretation of the Bible that I saw as viable, though. It went from a cultural Christianity, to fundamentalism, to Catholicism, and finally to where I am now. That path would have been very different had I not started out with cultural Christianity. Our views are shaped by the cultures that we grow up in. You can reach a conclusion on your own, and still have it heavily influenced by the society that you live in. It's not that people don't have choices outside of societal bounds (if they didn't, I wouldn't be a secular humanist), but it's incredibly naive to believe that your response to reading a holy book or any other sort of religious or philosophical text aren't shaped by your experiences and the society that you live in. I'm very much a product of the many factors that have shaped me as a person, even though I obviously still have significant freedom. At no point in my search for truth did I consider Hinduism or consider becoming a Sikh or Jain, because those options weren't at the forefront of my mind. They were possibilities for me, but ones that were very unlikely. [/QUOTE]
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