The minute you either
a) accept myth as literal truth and begin acting upon it
or
b) begin following the directions of an individual who professess a more correct understanding of mythical texts
you can wave goodbye to the best of humanity. You have given up on your greatest human gift: the ability to think and reason and act on the evidence of your own existence.
My only wish is. . . to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are "half animal, half angel" into persons, into whole persons.
-Ludwig Feuerbach (Lectures on the Essence of Religion)
a) accept myth as literal truth and begin acting upon it
or
b) begin following the directions of an individual who professess a more correct understanding of mythical texts
you can wave goodbye to the best of humanity. You have given up on your greatest human gift: the ability to think and reason and act on the evidence of your own existence.
My only wish is. . . to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are "half animal, half angel" into persons, into whole persons.
-Ludwig Feuerbach (Lectures on the Essence of Religion)
