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Why bother with the alternate interpretation then, if it means they have to ignore most of the book itself? Why not just ditch it and follow a book with a more solid set of morals?
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There’s a whole number of potential answers to that question. Perhaps they were brought up with that religion and they don’t wish to abandon it; maybe they believe in the broad strokes of the teachings and only have issues with a few specific problematic teachings; maybe they don’t believe another religion could be true.
Religion acts as a moral compass and a set of guidelines for people to live by; it provides meaning and direction for their existence. Turning around and dropping all of that because you disagree with certain passages of the holy text is a
lot harder than it may appear to someone who’s never experienced that way of living.
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I do want to. Maybe I shouldn't have used quotation marks but, nonetheless, you don't really want to say translation is not a paraphrase, do you?
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It’s a direct quotation from a specific edition of the Bible. That is a direct quote from a published text, not a paraphrase.
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If that was true, man. If that was true. Dedicated christians will never tell you that. Unless you don't mean them by "most rational people", which is not a very nice thing to say.
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Do you genuinely believe that? Have you
asked them?
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You don't really think there are no reprecussions for leaving a religion, do you? Especially the main religion of the country.
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That actually has nothing to do with what we were talking about. I’m not going to tell you there aren’t repercussions, but that has nothing to do with me saying:
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A Muslim is a follower of Islam. If you’re making statements about Islam then you are by extension making statements about its followers
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