(November 21, 2022 at 9:06 am)Ahriman Wrote:(November 21, 2022 at 8:46 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Of course, it’s easy for us with our 21st Century, materialistic minds to dismiss the Bible as a load of rubbish. But in the actual analysis, that is exactly what the Bible turns out to be---a load of rubbish! It is a book of nonsensical, fantastic stories about talking animals, talking bushes, mythical creatures, people rising from the dead, magic and pseudo-history. It is the creation of ignorant, fallible men, reflecting the prejudices, superstitions, bad theology and fears of the times in which it was written. It promotes slavery, ethnic cleansing, race prejudice, wars of conquest, the subjugation of women, child abuse and genital mutilation. It promotes the worship and celebration of a god who is little more than an egotistical, homicidal, fear-mongering tyrant. It is a book which any reasonable, intellectually honest, and intelligent person should heartily dismiss as bad fiction.
You are very much a product of a godless, vapid society. The Bible is fine for what it is, it just wasn't written for you.
As far as who the Bible was written for, there are tens of thousands of Bible-thumping evangelicals and Jehovah's Witnesses who would disagree with you. Such people have intruded themselves and their biblical pontifications into my life since I was a teenager.
You know nothing about me or my social and educational background, so please refrain from making presumptuous statements about what I'm the product of.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)