| > If you don't read all of it then how would you know you're abiding by it Why would it matter, because Christianity is very much not about following a large set of rules. It's more (some branches of) Jewry, that is famous for knowing and following a large set of rules. Most of the interaction with the priests is about how that is not actually sufficient and doesn't actually matters all that much. There is even a passage how someone following all the rules still won't succeed (the rich young man). The only real hard rule fits into a single sentence (double commandment of loving). > it's a collection of works that you agree with and want to associate with? Disagreeing is a normal and expected part of the faith and is the topic of some books in the collection. If you don't disagree with anything in the bible, I don't thing you are actually believing, you are just regurgitating things. The bible is a side effect of the formation of cultures and the getting to know in a relationship, and there is quite a development in it. > I haven't read Mein Kampf / The Communist Manifesto but I would bet some pages if not chapters are agreeable to a lay-person while the overall theme wasn't. Maybe in the Communist Manifesto, but Mein Kampf is total bullshit. > Death Panels in ObamaCare. No clue what that is, must be an US insider. > This is how we end with the Dunning-Kruger effect You know that Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation, right? https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k... |