>>13521888Because Christian tenants and morality are not based on the canonical books at all except in a very loose sense, but on Greco-Roman-Germanic traditions and philosophy. There's a reason theologians never translated the Coptic Greek scriptures to the peasants.
It's a powerful unifying religious doctrine and moral framework. There's a reason all of mankind's greatest intellectuals even up to the present day are at least agnostic Deists who are culturally Christian. Any well read scholar and researcher in Western civilization understands its place in the context of broader metaphysics, mysticism and philosophy continuing from Ancient times. Disrespecting theology to those great minds is just as childish as disrespecting Plato or Pythagos; you don't have to agree with all of it, it's an ever evolving conversation.
Dawkins reddit fanboy children are just that, children.
