The Bible is a book of fairytales. For a book inspired by God it sure has been through a lot of revisions. The bottomline is the only people who really believe the Bible is factual are idiots. Yes, idiots.
It was written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic and has been preserved through the centuries. If it weren't for Christianity, we would have slavery, the lack of hospitals and general human sacrifice across the world. Atheism has no meaning. What is right and wrong is all relative.
So the alternative to Bible literalism is only godless atheism?
You people are so ing stupid.
Thank god there was Christianity to brainwash those slaves into thinking their suffering was noble.
Like I said, the Bible isn't inherently wrong. What's wrong is idiots who believe it is 100% factual. It is a story book of fiction, with good lessons and morals within. Nothing more.
Maybe Boutons you should be the dispenser of all truth. Or should we have a poll to determine morality on a day by day basis? After all the Supreme Court has developed an evolving standard of decency doctrine. What's right today is wrong tomorrow.
Who determines what is "good" and "moral"?
"Maybe Boutons you should be the dispenser of all truth"
thanks for your support.
Can you address the false opposition of Bible literalism vs atheism? If you can't, I'll dispense you some truth.
As Pontius Pliate said to Jesus, "What is truth"?
The Bible clearly was not meant to be taken literally. It's sacriligious to take it literally, because we read it in translation.
To paraphrase CLinton, it depends on what the term "literal" is. For example God owns everything, not just cattle on a thousand hills. In contrast, thou shalt not steal is concrete.
A century from now people will wonder WTF we were thinking believing thousand year old fairy tales as fact.
A century from now, the gospel will be spread to the ends of the earth. People will say Dios es bueno, Gott ist sehr gut and will throw copies of Hitchens and Dawkins books into the wastebasket for lack of use.
Namaste!!
MadHatter sounds like the classic 20-something breaking away from his strict religious upbringing.
Call your mother, MH, she loves you.
No I sound like an enlightened individual who refuses to believe in thousand year old fairy tales because my parents did. I sound like one who can reason and use his intellect to see what is clearly bull in this world.
You are a sheep. You believe in the Bible because it is the easy thing to do.
Yep, I was right.because my parents did.
Can you define what cons utes "bull '? If it is hypocrisy or bribery Abramoff style or mass murder, why should you care? It is all random molecules floating around. Are you trying to borrow morality from the Bible? Say it ain't so!!!
Morality existed pre-Bible.
I don't need the Bible to have a sense of morality. Oh and dinosaurs are real.
It could be said that anyone who doesn't believe doesn't belong in government too. It's an opinion. Not a fairy tale.
There are holes in evolution that can be explained by intelligent design. , we are now doing genetic engineering ourselves. Who's to say a higher power didn't? As for creation, what the bible describes in genisis when taken from the Torah rather than current translations can be simply desribing terraforming!
Keep an open mind please.
Do you also belive the earth is flat?
No, there are no holes in evolution that could EVER be explained by ID. ID is a ing fantasy fairy tale with ZERO scientific evidence to back it up. It has no business being taught alongside EVOLUTION.
Evolution = SCIENCE
ID = ING FAIRYTALE
Holy , you actually believe speculation should be taught as science? Do you believe the second law of thermodynamics disproves evolution too?
But without the Bible, any person's sense of morality is just as valid as another's. I think that you have to tolerate such things as human sacrafice and poltical courruption because in your wolrdview, they are valid values of morality which are equal to integrity.
Yes, dinosaurs are real. Next question.
One has to have faith in evolution just as much as creationism. I haven't seen any iguanas sprout wings lately or elephants sprouting flippers and swimming in the open ocean.
Bull ing . Evolution is a scientific theory while creationism is speculation, interpolation, and wishing.
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