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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know some history of the Lutheran church, specifically the dude it takes its name from. He basically saw the corruption of the current big church and didn't like it. He even got so mad, he wrote a big list of shit they were doing wrong and stapled that shit to the front door of the building so everyone could see how fucked up they were. Martin Luther was big on "the bible is the only thing direct from God" and he basically saw how Catholicism was adding their own lore and profiting off things like indulgences and wanted to put a stop to that shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, which puts them above catholics in my book, but the Bible was cobbled together from any who wrote something they wanted (timothy is straight out), so we can assume either

  1. Man has screwed up religion except for the books chosen for the Bible and the translations they chose to use because God violated free choice just for that

Or

  1. It's probably as screwed up as the rest of religion

Break just to try to make formatting work

Even if divine inspiration comes into play instead of divine fiat. You still choose to believe the men in the room who had shown want to help themselves, decided to follow that inspiration. It's possible, but I don't find it likely. Theism or atheism is the only choice I can logically come to. Any book or religion just seems massively unlikely.