They were rockbangers and sheep herders. Why is there nothing in the bible that people did not believe at the time? I've heard some apologists proclaim that the focus on cleanliness was ahead of its time, however the greeks developed the same sort of practices. Some claim that the bible's claim that earth hangs upon nothing was evidence of divine guidance, but Egypt's knowledge of astronomy was well ahead of its time as well. The reality is that the bible claims that whales are fish, bats are birds, and the sun and stars are distinct celestial bodies. Slavery is accepable, wives and children are property, even to god (Job). They speak of natural disasters being god's vengeance. This is the extent of human knowledge at the time, following it as gospel would be akin to doctors using the same medical practices they used in the dark ages. Human knowledge expands, dogmatically holding onto anything conceived from our ignorance is madness
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
