EastKekistan wrote:Hanafuridake wrote:
Right, both tended to be hostile to the veneration of saints and see older forms of their religion as degenerations.
I think that they mean unique to the Graeco-Roman world and not the planet.
My hypothesis is that literal fundamentalism is just one step from atheism. Why? It is an intellectual ideology that requires one to read and revere the original religious scriptures and completely get rid of the traditionalist control over the flow of religious knowledge which does cause religion to evolve (or be distorted) over time.
Your theology is…lacking, and that’s not what atheism is.