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@EmuGod:
Remember this, becareful when you accuse some people who follow religions that they only read works written by poeple of their religion. From what I’ve seen, you only read (or it could have been FinsterniS) non-religious sources, which is exaclty the same as reading only religious ones. You aren’t getting the whole picture. Remember that you have to read works written by almost everyone to truly get teh whole picture.
Just a minute…
(1) reading scientific books, i don’t assume that i then can judge over the faith of others. This seems to be a difference between “not religious” and “religious” books. I have had a few looks into creationists books, and saw how they used flawed/misunderstood science to “prove” their points.
Science belongs to science, religion to religion. But, unfortunately, it seems that some religious people do not see it this way.
(2) You are right that you have to read a lot to “get the whole picture”, but: does that include to read things from every little (in terms of followers) religion, no matter how old it is? As well:
(3) wrt to the editing: There is a difference in reading “only from my religion” and reading “only religious” ones. You could say, that i read books only of my “religion”, which then would be science. But then, this religions has predicted so many wonders and things, and so many have come through, that i have to be sure that my “god” (nature?) is stronger than any other. My “god” has invented such a lot, lead to such a lot of understanding and explaining the world, and proven so many other beliefs wrong… Anyway, i don’t claim that my “religion” is flaw- and faultless.
Back to the point: In a discussion it surely is not good to read things that support your point of view anyway (which i didn’t, try to find my remarks about the bibles). If talking about science, it doesn’t help much how many religious books i have read, regardless of the faith. On the other hand: if talking about religions then that would be a major point.
So, you accuse me of reading books of my “faith” only. Provably, i haven’t done that. It seems to me you do that in some kind of forward-defense, because i constantly push against you mentioning jewish sources most of the time (i won’t say “all of the time”, because it could be that something slipped my memory)…
plus i don’t like the way you use them at all. That always sounds so very much “i am right, and i was right before you, and my ancestors always knew, and we are better anyway”.
And i just don’t like it, when i feel that someone thinks of him better than of others!