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Old 12-15-2010, 01:29 PM   #77
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Are you genuinely incapable of distinguishing between a religious text and prurient material?
Yes. I genuinely am. I can tell what books other people think are "holy books;" people are often quite vocal about it. What I can't tell is what makes those books actually holy.

I can't sense the "holy aura." I would say I'm just color-blind that way, and other people can sense something I can't, except different people report different perceptions of what book is actually really the holy one, (or ones). So I think nobody else can sense it either.

One standard for every book seems fair to me. Not "all these books have to meet guideline X but this other book I think is holy so it gets a pass."

It's simple enough--if your holy book can't meet guideline X, discard the guideline; it obviously wasn't a good one.

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