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The problem here, though, is that liberal Christianity makes ZERO sense. The bible is either the inspired word of god or it isn't. One or the other. It isn't the inspired word of god for you and just a book for me. It can't be. It has to be one or the other. So, liberal Christians who sort of take a lighweight figurative view of the bible make no sense. I have far more respect for fundamentalists who, though completely wrong, are at least slightly more intellectually honest than their "progressive" peers. Liberal Christians pick and choose which parts of the bible to observe while discarding most of it. "Genesis is a myth, but Jesus was real. God just couldn't hate homosexuals even though the bible is black and white about it. The old testament says 'an eye for an eye', the new testament says 'turn the other cheek', but we do neither."
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Liberal christians accept that the Bible was written by the hands of man, and its thus imperfect. God might have influenced it - but so did man.
They pick and choose, because they have the brains to realise certian things in the Bible are wrong, while other things have some credit.
I will always respect people who can use their own brains to realise whats right and wrong in the bible, over those who blindly follow.
So what if they want to cling to their belief in god? A belief in a god isn't what causes damage.