Ironical Religiosity

[Perndog]

It's awfully hard to find religious groups having purely intellectual discussions - Christian Bible studies involve reading from the viewpoint of either "this is the literal word of God" or "what was God trying to teach us here?" with prayer mixed in, and I would assume most Jewish groups are the same. Just about any meeting with a religious purpose is pretty similar to a worship service, with maybe some intellectual content, but that content will be biased in some direction. Unless this fellowship is a common thing? I'm under the impression that it's kind of unique.

I know of plenty of atheist and humanist organizations that have meetings and even discuss scripture, but few look at much of it in a favorable light. Definitely good ways to learn, but they, too, usually have a bias that can color the proceedings.