Religious Justification or Taking It Out of Context
If I had a quarter for every time someone told me that I personally
took something out of context and should read more text to clarify
something written in a religious textbook, I would quite frankly
have a lot of money.
The fact of the matter is that I and practically everyone else has
the possibility of misinterpreting information that they personally
have not written and taking it out of context.
With that said and the fact that I accept blame and responsibility
for information I have personally taken out of context, I would like
to point out that it's your turn to apologize and accept
responsibility for either claims you have made as a religious person
or claims that you have accepted, without taking the time to figure
out whether or not there was a possibility that your interpretation
could be incorrect.
The only reason why I'm writing this article today is that I'm sick
and tired of people telling me that I can find God by simply
interpreting religious text correctly, like they actually have the
ability to do it themselves.
Can you imagine the audacity, the arrogance of someone to suggest
they know exactly what someone meant, when these individuals have
been dead for centuries and don't have the ability to clarify this
information in person.
For example, it's believed that the 10 Commandments could have been
written almost 3,000 years ago and one of those commandments states
clearly that “Thou Shall Not Kill.”
However it by itself does not provide followers with any exceptions
or exemptions, making it easy to interpret correctly by itself and
at the same time providing followers to take it out of context, when
more information from other parts of the Bible has been gathered.
It's a simple and easy statement to interpret and realistically
suggest with a high probability that believers of these
instructions, rules or laws should not kill, under any
circumstances, otherwise any exceptions to the rule would have been
stated clearly in the same verse or listed next to it by the
omnipotent and all-powerful provider of them, to eliminate any
chance of confusion.
For example, if it said thou shall not kill, except when attacked,
raped or for food, then we might have something a little closer to
what followers of these instructions currently do.
Don't get me wrong, there are other rules in the Bible that provide
us with exceptions, but they contradict themselves.
The Book of Leviticus provides religious followers with a list of
rules or laws that allow another follower to take the life of one of
God's precious children, even though it directly contradicts one of
the 10 Commandments, but if I read more Bible verses I will somehow
be able to justify this obvious contradiction, I don't think so.
I just can't continue reading or gathering information that doesn't
make sense to begin with, in order to make sense out of something
that's easy to interpret in the first place.
Whenever I'm around a group of individuals who think they're right,
simply because they're following the guidance of others who haven't
taken the necessary time to gather all of the evidence necessary to
make a rational claim about anything, I often wonder why.
How can I tell someone that they are taking something out of
context, when I really don't know for sure and it would be difficult
to validate with rational satisfactory evidence?
So the next time someone tells you, whether you're an atheist,
agnostic, nonbeliever or believer that you're simply taking
something out of context, send them a copy of this article.
The only way we cannot take something out of context will be to have
the original author provide us with an interpretation or have
everyone agree on a specific interpretation that can no longer be
rationally doubted.