Post:"Doing some deep reading into Cherokee history for the project that I'm working on and I am continually amazed how fucking funny old Cherokee leaders were" Book excerpt:"Drowning Bear's principal influence. however, was in holding his people to the mountains and to the old religion of the mountains. He did not succumb to Christian missionaries, but after listening to one or two chapters of the Bible, remarked, 'It seems to be a good book—strange that the white people are not better, after having had it so long.' And"
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

In the sense that the supernatural claims and many historical accounts made by biblical authors have no basis in reality, of course you're right. That doesn't mean there's no value in the academic study of the Bible. If you have no interest you can dismiss the whole lot as nonsense, but there's a lot of insight (and by insight I'm not talking about capital T Truth about the nature of reality) about the development of thought in Europe and the Near East to be gleaned from the Bible.

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