Is researching into religion a waste of time?

[Arellius]

I think it's good to know when you also want to study the opposite (to be an Anti Theist), this is still one of my favorite quotes and comments I found.

''Noah would have had 99% more animals on his ark than exists today. So the largest zoo on earth is 130 acres and only holds 1% of species alive today. 12,000 animals with almost 1000 different species. So just a little rough math, that would mean Noah would need an ark with roughly 750 thousand acre capacity. I have to say 1) that is on the low side of the scale. 2) Do you want to believe a story like this so terribly bad you are willing to destroy your logic, reason, and integrity to uphold an ancient myth?''

I don't know the whole Bible (New & Old Testament) yet, or any of the other versions. However I would like to know them to do some serious research and find all the fallacy's and logic in them. Christopher Hitchens knew ALLOT about religion, the man did his serious studies. And that's very handy when you want to be an Anti Theist and/or Atheist in my opinion

Start here.

http://individual.utoronto.ca/mfkolarcik...erzog.html

Scroll down to "
from Ha'aretz Magazine, Friday, October 29, 1999)"

and find out how much bullshit is in the so-called OT.

Good piece, I thought this was the best bit !

Biblical scholars suggested a quarter of a century ago that the conquest stories be viewed as etiological legends and no more. But as more and more sites were uncovered and it emerged that the places in question died out or were simply abandoned at different times, the conclusion that there is no factual basis for the biblical story about the conquest by Israelite tribes in a military campaign led by Joshua was bolstered.

Thanks for the link, and my first most informative bit of info I got since I joined.