>Now that, at least, I can accept. Not that I accept the bible as the work of God, but I certainly can accept that many people can believe so on faith alone. It's just that the circular argument that the bible
must be the work of God because it says so in the bible, is a logical quagmire that drives me nuts whenever I hear it trotted out.
You can find lots of examples of that. For example, believers of other religions will say that
their book is holy, because their book says so. Or, the pope is infallible, because the pope says so.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
