> With Religion, there is nothing you can do to understand it. You can only "have faith". If your spiritual leader or holy book tells you the world is a certain way, you can only believe it, or disbelieve it, you cannot do anything to investigate the veracity of those claims. Truly, this is the most authoritarian of world views: Believe this because I tell you to!
There's a few thousand years of Talmudic scholarship you might want to read up on, just to pick one of the more obvious from among the many counterexamples.
Almost every religion is a much broader and much more intellectually diverse intellectual project than their respective fundamentalists would like you to believe.
There's a few thousand years of Talmudic scholarship you might want to read up on, just to pick one of the more obvious from among the many counterexamples.
Almost every religion is a much broader and much more intellectually diverse intellectual project than their respective fundamentalists would like you to believe.