When I read the Bible, I can feel feelings of comfort, knowledge, and peace. These feelings come from the Holy Spirit, who confirms that the Bible is true.
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Numbers 11:1
Yep. Nothing helps me sleep better at night than reading about the exploits of an easily irritated, overly harsh omnipotent being.
You know, I know a lot of people would have bad things to say about this, but I wouldn't call her a fundie. If reading the bible makes her happy, I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't believe in it, but at least she's not insulting atheists and their beliefs.
When I take a dump, I can feel feelings of comfort, knowledge, and peace. Do these feelings also come from the Holy Spirit?
Funny, I'd have thought that the Babble would make a pretty terrible security blanket. As much as I love books, they are hardly soft or cuddly. And let's not even talk about the contents of your fairy tales book of choice... Even the original, non-kiddified version of Grimm's Fairy Tales would be better.
I feel peace, comfort and knowledge while reading the god delusion. Therefore there is no god.
Oh noes! What have I done. I've created a world with and without a god.
When I read the Bible, I can feel feelings of comfort, knowledge, and peace.
I feel the same way about movies with edifying, happy endings, but that doesn't make me believe they're real.
If you're hungry and don't know where your next meal is coming from, and you read a sign that says "free food tomorrow", it may give you feelings of comfort, knowledge, and peace. That doesn't prove the sign is true and you'll actually be fed.
"Like bats being birds, and pi = 3." *Sigh*.
Neither of those is a good example of biblical errancy. "Birds" is just an English translation of a Hebrew word for flying creature, and the whole pi = 3 thing is just an issue with measurements rounded off to the nearest whole number of cubits.
Rabbits chewing the cud, and insects having 4 legs, though? Those are another matter entirely.
I don't see anything particularly Fundie about this. Granted, the person is likely a Fundie; but many people can feel such things about their religion and have their own personal experiences with God. This isn't really that Fundie, IMO...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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