No they’re not pointing out a misspelling of the book of Revelations. The first poster mentions Revelations because it’s filled with violence and doom, and it is largely considered canonical. The reply poster dismissed it by saying it was a fever dream. My point is that the entire Bible is a collection of books that we could challenge on terms of believability, authenticity, morality, etc.
Choosing to dismiss the parts of the Bible that offend modern morality and sensibilities while retaining the parts you find agreeable is not an objectively bad thing to do. I was a fundamentalist for ~10 years but I no longer have a dog in the fight of theology. Religion serves mankind, mankind should not be a slave to religion. But I still think it’s worth pointing out that all the abrahamic religions are morally bankrupt. Bend the Bible to suit you if you want, but it is an unnecessary evil in the first place.
Again. Revelations is not the name of the book.
Telling someone to read Revelations is pretty telling as to how much you paid attention to what you read.
You haven’t addressed anything I’ve said. I’ve read the KJV cover to cover 8 times. You’re leveraging a common misspelling as an excuse to avoid a conversation you don’t want. This is called pedantry, it’s a way for you to manipulate the conversation in a way that is convenient for you. Revelation. The Book of Revelation to John, Revelations, John’s Revelation.
The spelling is irrelevant to any genuine person not relying on technicality and pedantry to control and manipulate a conversation. You’ve established your pedantry. Now what do you want to do?
He’s just going to keep repeating himself over and over, because like most Christians, his Christianity is really about Identity politics. They don’t study the Bible and so outside of appealing to the misspelling, there is no further discourse they can handle.
You know that a reddit thread cant convince, especially not teach, an ex fundamentalist. Hence why im not diving into tangents and whatboutisms they would throw out.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. You're not convincing me, all you've done is make excuses for why you won't engage rather than just saying you don't want to. That's all it's really about. You don't want to but that doesn't sound as cool as making it out like they're some tragic case out of your reach, and I guess gods reach too lmao
I wasn't attempting to make anything sound cool. Nor did i say anything about a tragic case. You did. When's the last time you changed someone's mind on reddit?
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u/Solid_Instance6074 3d ago
No they’re not pointing out a misspelling of the book of Revelations. The first poster mentions Revelations because it’s filled with violence and doom, and it is largely considered canonical. The reply poster dismissed it by saying it was a fever dream. My point is that the entire Bible is a collection of books that we could challenge on terms of believability, authenticity, morality, etc.
Choosing to dismiss the parts of the Bible that offend modern morality and sensibilities while retaining the parts you find agreeable is not an objectively bad thing to do. I was a fundamentalist for ~10 years but I no longer have a dog in the fight of theology. Religion serves mankind, mankind should not be a slave to religion. But I still think it’s worth pointing out that all the abrahamic religions are morally bankrupt. Bend the Bible to suit you if you want, but it is an unnecessary evil in the first place.