If you can cherry pick a book that tells you 1+2=3 on one page and 6-2=82.5 in another, you dont tell people you are holding a Math book. If someone actually tried to imply and apply 6-2=82.5 because they read that book, you know you got serious issues at hand. Mathematics have come a long way. While we appreciate the brilliance of people from long ago given their limited tools, and their less advanced understanding about nature and how the world works, we do not teach nor learn math from those sources anymore. How does one interpret do not kill in any philosophical or ideological writings into a violent one? You dont get much room to do that. But if any rule or quote can be interpreted into a thousand different ways, according to ones biases, we can safely say that that rule or quote is neither clear nor true. The rules and language of Mathematics is consistent. What is 1+1 in Brazil is the same 1+1 for China. We understand that clearly. If myths and unclear messages were taken out from holy texts, what one will probably be left with are very thin books with philosophical and social ideas. Why produce a book, any book that confuses when the supposed objective is to spread clear messages to the masses? Unless the objective came from a very confused source, that can never stand the test of time, nor passed any basics of progressive thinking and understanding. To say that holy books are divine and beyond the common men to grasp is not only a typical bigoted response but an intellectually dishonest and incredibly immature excuse. A cowards cop out.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 04:14:45 +0000