Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations.
You don’t get to claim that a book is the word of god with binding commandments and then say that the book is incomplete and subject to interpretation.
Which book?
I can’t tell if you’re being rhetorical. There’s many books like this…
Isn’t that a clue that they’re all bullshit and shouldn’t be heeded?
If it worked that way, we’d be ignoring sciences too. Unfortunately the only way is through good old-fashioned critical thought, which is difficult when “spread the word” is baked in.
Citing any religious text as though it holds value is reserved only for fools. There is a reality that doesn’t change regardless of whether religious texts align to it or not, which makes their contents historically interesting but ultimately weightless, worthless.
Edit: my line of questioning was too harsh. But gosh I really don’t even get what you’re trying to imply about intellectual reasoning.
Can you expand on this? That’s a pretty unhinged thing to say. Do you believe that there is One Godly Scientist that writes all Scientific Texts? Is The Scientific Man Who Writes All Scientific Texts in the room with us right now?