(November 13, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:The Bible actually only contains two main ideas: believe and obey without exception. That's what every story is about.(November 13, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: I've stayed out of it up to now. But I think I understand what it is about scriptures which just really annoy the hell out of me. It is the numbers and initials attached to each one. It is like Wittgenstein's Tractatus without the intellectual chewiness, but with even more presumption.
That is all.
There are more interesting, provocative ideas on any five pages of Wittgenstein than can be found in hundreds of pages of Biblical text.
Consider the Abraham story. According to our morals he was a first class bastard without any redeeming qualities. But, in the Bible there isn't one instance where he didn't obey. It didn't matter if it was killing and robbing, screwing the pubic hairs off of his sister, cutting off foreskins, kicking his oldest son out into the desert to die, killing Isaac, or lying his ass off. He did everything that he was told to do so he's credited as being the founder of three religions. That in itself should indicate that he was full of BS because if he was really good he would be credited with just one religion.
