And it's rated R for excessive violence and sexuality.
That's MISTER Godless Vegetarian Tree Hugging Hippie Liberal to you.
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The Bible: not a page turner!
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   RE: The Bible: not a page turner!
April 2, 2014 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2014 at 8:48 am by Justtristo.)
(April 1, 2014 at 5:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Maybe we could persuade Quentin Tarantino to do a re-write. He would be the only director in my opinion, who remake "The Greatest Story Ever Told", which would be quite faithful to the text it was based on. (April 1, 2014 at 6:17 pm)Fromper Wrote: And it's rated R for excessive violence and sexuality. NC-17 actually, since you have scenes for example; In Genesis 9 Ham sodomizing his own father Noah. Or in Judges 19 Story of a guy who let his concubine be raped . Then the guy cut up her dead body into 12 pieces and send those pieces all across Israel.
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 (April 2, 2014 at 12:44 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: In many ways the Bible stories are satirical essays about morality. They give the ideal and then contrast it with the imperfect.  I strongly suspect that the authors may not have intended it to be satire. Read with a satirical perspective in mind, however, the Bible could be a much more entertaining read. I would have liked a more slapstick, sitcom feel to it though... For example: Noah builds an Ark to escape the flood. God drowns the entire world. Noah lands on a little island and makes a sacrifice. God smells the sacrifice and comes down, wearing a clown nose. God says: 'Just kidding! C'mon! lighten up everybody!' *honks car horn* An angel does a drum roll and ends with a cymbal. Noah, his family and all the animals laugh. Freeze frame. Credits roll. But now I feel we are criticising the story of the bible, rather than its 'entertainment' value. 
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
When I was sixteen or so, I picked up a bible just for the hell of it to see what the fuss really was about, and after several dozen "begats," I said, "fuck this" and skipped to what I knew to be the bloody ending. I only revelations, and I never intend to open a bible again. It was a less than compelling read.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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