Is mistakenly claiming you "know" detrimental?

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Don't forget ugly and mean and despicable and nasty, gun toting, knuckle dragging, booger eatin', but scratchin', fart sniffer.

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That's because you worship at the church of the almighty bigotry where reading and believing the Bible is a sin.

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ROFLMAO!

Which parts? Oh! That's right, the parts you agree with.

But you don't believe in inerrancy, so which parts are infallible, immutable and inspired? The parts that fit your perspectives?

I seriously doubt you can categorically reference a single verse you believe came from the mouth of God. Unless of course it agrees with you.

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In other words you don't believe the Bible.

@fmf said
People, like me, are often accused of being cowards for admitting that they don't the origin of the universe and also of being a coward for not coming up with an explanation to compete with religious narratives.

Can people insisting that they "know" things that ~ in fact, they do not know ~ be detrimental or hampering in any way to one's spiritual self and to one's interactions with others on spiritual questions?

The gun is not loaded! Being mistaken can lead to horrible consequences!

@kellyjay said
The gun is not loaded!

What do you mean?

@kellyjay said
Being mistaken can lead to horrible consequences!

That's what Dasa used to claim ~ he had a very similar mindset to you ~ and his "horrible consequences" were things like being reincarnated as a cockroach. But I used to think: Cockroach? Human? What's the difference? I can't tell. I am only an atheist after all.

@fmf said
What do you mean?

You can be wrong about the someone's favorite color, but life and death mistakes
are just that, life and death mistakes, so it can be wrong to be mistaken by claiming
the knowledge you don't have.

@fmf said
That's what Dasa used to claim ~ he had a very similar mindset to you ~ and his "horrible consequences" were things like being reincarnated as a cockroach. But I used to think: Cockroach? Human? What's the difference? I can't tell. I am only an atheist after all.

Well, if you recall, I was speaking about nothingness; if everything alive goes there
after death, there is no difference between a human and a cockroach when they
reach nothing.