the subject of the resurrection was never intended to be taken literally by intelligent people.
Correct, which shows the mindset of those who read the bible literally. Not intelligent.
Is that too hard to believe?
Faith without facts is for fools. I believe what I believe by the facts behind it.
I would not call the bible B.B though. I recommend reading it to everyone, but to not read it literally. Literal reading give a genocidal son murdering demiurge of a god who is quite evil, even if the less intelligent and more immoral Christians do not see their vile god as vile.
As you said above, they are not intelligent. That is why they are sheeple and not free thinkers.
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Regards
DL
ok, fine.... What then?
The next logical step after realizing that many expressions in the Bible should not be taken literally is to go back and reread everything to decipher the metaphors and discover what those subjects obscured by figurative language are actually about.
That being said, every subject from the beginning, "the creation of heaven and earth", "the sword" that Jesus said he came to bring, the command to "eat his flesh", "eternal life", healing the blind, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, to the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven, are all actually and literally about something.
So why not pick a subject, any subject, and just say what it is actually about, what is wrong
and what is right. Spit it out already. What is the flesh of Jesus and how does one eat it? What is "the sword" that came out of Jesus' mouth to smite the nations? What did the blind see?
Provide some evidence of what was hidden, otherwise you are just some guy without any money jumping up and down claiming that there is gold hidden somewhere in them there hills.
If you haven't worked it all out yet you shouldn't be calling people stupid,you should be prospecting and if you already found something of great value, you shouldn't be calling people stupid, you should be spreading the wealth.