If we glean even a little truth from an idea, does it have at least a little value?
GS, you operate in a world of absolutes. I was much like you at one time.
Non sequiturs to cover up your inability to produce a coherent answer, check that box. One away from bingo.
If ideas were simply one dimensional, that might be true, but they are usually more complex than the above statement.
There is some value in secular wisdom, but when presented in the context of promoting a supernatural worldview, it's value is debatable. I'm in favor of treating the Bible as the collected stories and myths of ancient Jews.
I think it is much more than that, as is most everything we do.
More how? It's supernatural claims can't be confirmed, so it's just the collected and often contradictory sayings of some old time Jews.
Because that's all you see when you look at it.
You know, saying we're wrong isn't the same thing as saying you're right. But then you're not right, so you can't say that. Doesn't leave you much.
It's not a matter of being "right" or "wrong." Rather than confront an idea, maybe we should face it as a possible alternative. We might learn something about our self and others by doing so.
You sound like a random excuse generator.
I did acknowledge that it contained wisdom, but that it's wisdom is independent of supernatural claims. I think I'm being generous. At worst, it's a guide to justify doing horrible shit in the name of god. As an endorsement of slavery, misogyny, homophobia, and witch-burning, it's hardly a moral guide.
Don't forget genocide, child abuse, etc.
I suppose that depends on your perspective of life and how you view yourself in relationship to it.
We might need crucify you for our sins, GS.
Yes, I'm blessed with reason and skeptical of phoney baloney.
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
That's your go-to after 2,000 years, why change now.