| ssj12 said: The Bible also is nothing more then a historical story book, thats right I said it. The Bible's stories are twisted stories of either what really happened, example the Plagues, or stories of faith, example Noah's Arch. A book and religion that has changed and been rewritten hundreds of times holds as much truth in it as the Harry Potter books. The concept of Religion is hope based. Without a belief of a higher being, or afterlife, or next step, there would be no belief in and of hope in this world. Without hope for even a better day then today, for example, would make this a very depressing world. In general, you put the belief of what is right and wrong based on what a book told you. You have not allowed yourself to freely believe what you want. You are not letting your own thoughts freely understand the world around you and what is really right and wrong. |
Careful now, you're backing your knowledge on the topic based off of what? What a bunch of fans of the Crow-turned-athiest post on their blogs? Its a modern thought, what you state, but it is backed by no evidence whatsoever beyond opinion. All the Anne Rice fans who fell in love with Interview With a Vampire would surely agree with you, but attacking a structure of a religion or faith without solid documented fact that proves otherwise to circa de 33 AD is not making you out to be anything beyond either A - ignorant or B - intolerant.
That said, I will concur that there are some misinterpretations throughout Biblical translation, such as the one line in which it says "Do not keep company with with sorcerers and fortune-tellers", as it was in the Greek version "poisoners and assassins".
It is common of neo-Athiesm to claim the Bible to be nothing more than a storybook, but again, people do such with no fact, only contempt with the faiths associated with it. It's sort of like attacking MGS4 as being the worst game ever without ever having even touched a PS3.
