You cannot twist things your way. There is NO Outrider way according to the bible. Go back re-think and repost.
I'm not trying to 'twist' things, I'm responding to the fact that there isn't even just one variant of the Bible, let alone one definitive explanation for its contents, or one definitive interpretation of that content.
There are thousands of branches of Christianity alone, variants of Judaism and Islam too, and they're all predicated in part or in whole by versions of that book (and claimed 'sequels').
As someone who doesn't accept that there's any validity to the magical elements of the story I can see - hateful elements in all of the works, and kernels of a creditable philosophy in bits and pieces here and there. It's not the faith that I have a problem with, it's the absolute certainty with which some people claim they have 'THE' way of interpreting, the absolute conviction with which they declare someone else's equally untestable, equally tortured, equally arbitrary interpretation is 'wrong'.
That conviction can lead to the sort of violence we see linked to religious differences around the world. Even if I hadn't seen the work and hadn't referred to its contents in my entire life, I could point to Muslims who are killing Christians, who are killing other Muslims who are killing Jews who are killing Muslims (without actually checking if any of those PEOPLE they are killing are actually adherents at all), and to internecine warfare between Christian sects, between Islamic sects and say how can you claim that I'm the one 'twisting' the story?
I'm not trying to twist anything any way. I read the work, I see stories of magic and gods, and I put it on the shelf with the Odyssey. That's not 'twisting' it, that's rejecting it as nonsense. I just wish that everyone else would, too.
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