byronarnold:

Vestitor:Some Esperantists may well be Christians, but I only said 'discourage', which is not by force.

I understand that. What I don't understand is Why? I am a devout Christian. However, I would never discourage anybody from reading the Talmud, the Gnostic Gospels, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, or The God Delusion. In fact, I quite enjoyed the last one when I read it. Granted, I was an atheist at the time...

Each decree text includes valuable knowledge. If nothing else, each one provides insights into the culture, traditions, beliefs, and practices of those who hold it sacred. Why would you discourage someone from learning about and understanding others?

Well, it eventually did get to this and you asked the question so... There is much less of that much-vaunted valuable knowledge in any of those books. History alone, without any religious spin, provides the same, and more, insight into historical culture and thought.

I'd discourage people because religion is a menace. Not necessarily in a violent sense, but that it limits scope by being en exercise in continually justifying its fixed position, rather than encouraging knowledge acquisition and understanding from evidence, no matter what the conclusions.

sudanglo:UEA which begat I, which in its turn begat O. There are five vowels in Esperanto AEIOU. It's a pun.

Caught!

Thank you, sudangulo.

If anyone would like to further discuss the advisability of studying religious texts, I suggest you take that discussion to one of the Esperanto-language forums, because it is off-topic in this thread. The topic of this thread is the archaic character (or lack thereof) of a specific text.