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I am constantly amazed at things that no person would believe at all in modern society, but they are fine about believing it in an ancient one. This double standard makes no sense. One obvious example is if any woman were to tell someone today that she was pregnant, no modern person would believe for a second that a deity did it.
The one that really kills me though is this. We all know that all writing about history or news or politics is biased. It doesn't matter whether we are conservative, libertarian, or liberal, we all take everything we read on such subjects with a large grain of salt, even from those newspeople in our own political spectrum. However, for some reason the same people who reasonably recognize the agendas in modern writing or television are somehow clueless about it when it comes to the same types of writing in ancient times. They'll say that the bible is completely true, ignoring the fact that the people in those times had even more reason to have a big agenda than Americans do today. The Jews were living in a land occupied by a hated enemy. Of course they would agitate in any way they could to try to undermine the Roman occupiers. I would think that any reasonable person would take the bible's writings with at least as much skepticism as we take any modern reporting.
The one that really kills me though is this. We all know that all writing about history or news or politics is biased. It doesn't matter whether we are conservative, libertarian, or liberal, we all take everything we read on such subjects with a large grain of salt, even from those newspeople in our own political spectrum. However, for some reason the same people who reasonably recognize the agendas in modern writing or television are somehow clueless about it when it comes to the same types of writing in ancient times. They'll say that the bible is completely true, ignoring the fact that the people in those times had even more reason to have a big agenda than Americans do today. The Jews were living in a land occupied by a hated enemy. Of course they would agitate in any way they could to try to undermine the Roman occupiers. I would think that any reasonable person would take the bible's writings with at least as much skepticism as we take any modern reporting.
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