mindaugasii on Nostr: I think you do need to read and study some, but not necessarily all, to the point of ...
I think you do need to read and study some, but not necessarily all, to the point of becoming a priest.
You read some. If the tone sounds parental and prescribtive, pushes to delegate decisions to other centralized predefined entities other than yourself, while meant for adults, you know it is bad.
In some cases you can just see that the followers look and dress, funny, unnatural, unpractical, more so than others, not the way that a lion or a bear would do. So you know the texts that cause that are bad.
Then you may read more if you want to compare with other bad things and understand which of them is worse.
For instance I only had to read a few lines here and there of Bhaghavad Gita, to understan it is no different from Catholicism, obviously copies from one another. Or from Islam if not Catholicism, did not go far enough to investigate which is closer.
You read some. If the tone sounds parental and prescribtive, pushes to delegate decisions to other centralized predefined entities other than yourself, while meant for adults, you know it is bad.
In some cases you can just see that the followers look and dress, funny, unnatural, unpractical, more so than others, not the way that a lion or a bear would do. So you know the texts that cause that are bad.
Then you may read more if you want to compare with other bad things and understand which of them is worse.
For instance I only had to read a few lines here and there of Bhaghavad Gita, to understan it is no different from Catholicism, obviously copies from one another. Or from Islam if not Catholicism, did not go far enough to investigate which is closer.