RE: The Bible: A Moral book?!
September 1, 2009 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2009 at 3:06 pm by Demonaura.)
Skeptics annotated bible notations count.
Absurdities: 1333
Injustices: 1254
Cruelty and Violence: 992
Intolerance: 627
Contradictions: 439 (questions, multiple verses quoted in each question)
Science and History: 347 (not real science, biblical science as in angels throwing lightning at us)
Interpretation: 342
Family Values: 327 (including "I [Jesus] will kill her children with death." Rev 2:23 LOLOL)
Women: 323 (None of them pro-woman)
Good Stuff: 274 (although many exceptions exist including that it says love everyone, elsewhere says to never be yoked with unbeleivers.
Prophecy: 207
Sex 197
Language: 180
Homosexualisty: 34 (not very popular huh)
So while 'good stuff' is not the bottom catagory many of the good rules are overturned later on or even before they are said. Jesus says to love thy neighbor, as do the commandments yet, 'god' specifically tells christians never to be yoked together with unbelievers.
If this book is truly a moral guide I weep for our species as we truly have learned nothing since the days of sticking leeches in wounds to suck out the demons and cutting people in quarters then hanging the remains in a net as an example to those who do not follow your particular dogma.
Now, is there ANY morality to find? Yes if you use the moral compass you have as a product of natural selection and developed by life experience to determine what parts you agree with then you will be able to find good things. Just so long as you, like many christians do, cherry pick out the good parts and ignore the bad parts.
If you do this just don't say the bible is moral and call yourself a christian because neither is particularly true.
Absurdities: 1333
Injustices: 1254
Cruelty and Violence: 992
Intolerance: 627
Contradictions: 439 (questions, multiple verses quoted in each question)
Science and History: 347 (not real science, biblical science as in angels throwing lightning at us)
Interpretation: 342
Family Values: 327 (including "I [Jesus] will kill her children with death." Rev 2:23 LOLOL)
Women: 323 (None of them pro-woman)
Good Stuff: 274 (although many exceptions exist including that it says love everyone, elsewhere says to never be yoked with unbeleivers.
Prophecy: 207
Sex 197
Language: 180
Homosexualisty: 34 (not very popular huh)
So while 'good stuff' is not the bottom catagory many of the good rules are overturned later on or even before they are said. Jesus says to love thy neighbor, as do the commandments yet, 'god' specifically tells christians never to be yoked together with unbelievers.
If this book is truly a moral guide I weep for our species as we truly have learned nothing since the days of sticking leeches in wounds to suck out the demons and cutting people in quarters then hanging the remains in a net as an example to those who do not follow your particular dogma.
Now, is there ANY morality to find? Yes if you use the moral compass you have as a product of natural selection and developed by life experience to determine what parts you agree with then you will be able to find good things. Just so long as you, like many christians do, cherry pick out the good parts and ignore the bad parts.
If you do this just don't say the bible is moral and call yourself a christian because neither is particularly true.
