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Meta Where is Biblical Criticism or Hermeneutics?

I should probably begin by saying that I personally have no investment in any of the religious communities here, much because I am not religious myself, and feel happy not to have had to care much ...

posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭ · 2024-07-28T21:33:44Z (4 months ago)
I should probably begin by saying that I personally have no investment in any of the religious communities here, much because I am not religious myself, and feel happy not to have had to care much for the topic after secondary school, as religion is rather non-existent in the areas my daily life takes place in. As such, my answer here may be based on a misunderstanding of how these Codidact communities actually work, and my answer is mostly a suggestion to the more involved people around these parts.

I actually think that any community at Codidact, should value the scientific approach, and have facts at the core. At the same time, I do understand the motivation to have communities for actively religious people, as long as it's within a reasonable level of respect and a logic approach to matters. That seems to be the current state of affairs in the Codidact communities dedicated to religion. So where does that leave the inclusion of the studies on religion as seen in research and science?

I think there are two ways to do this. The first, is adding a new category to all the religious communities, specifically dedicated to the scientific approach, with research, and an outside-view on the religion. The alternative approach, is creating an entirely new community only for this scientific/philosophical approach to religion. That may have the added benefit of comparing and examining multiple religions at once, but with the drawback of a larger barrier between the intro- and extrospection. It's been noted in the comments to the question, that mixing the scientific and the non-scientific on SE, were bad choices. If keeping the types of posts separate in different categories or with a new community, we can possibly reduce clashes between the two camps, and also introduce rules such that similar questions in both locations actually are _not_ duplicates.