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It is an influential book, no doubt about it, and has many gems of wisdom hidden in its pages, ready to be dug out and used.However, it is also a collection of ancient writings that were written down when most people were illiterate and had experiences limited to a subsistence farm within a few miles of the place of their birth and death. Those writings were done in languages that are now extinct for the most part, and translated into Latin, then into modern languages. Many tell stories that were handed down by word of mouth for decades before being written down. It simply is not rational to think that those writings are to be interpreted literally. Here is why:http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/laura.htm
It is an influential book, no doubt about it, and has many gems of wisdom hidden in its pages, ready to be dug out and used.
However, it is also a collection of ancient writings that were written down when most people were illiterate and had experiences limited to a subsistence farm within a few miles of the place of their birth and death. Those writings were done in languages that are now extinct for the most part, and translated into Latin, then into modern languages. Many tell stories that were handed down by word of mouth for decades before being written down.
It simply is not rational to think that those writings are to be interpreted literally. Here is why:
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/laura.htm
