RE: How can you prove that the gospel of Mark is not the "word of god"?
August 28, 2016 at 2:59 am
(August 28, 2016 at 1:36 am)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 28, 2016 at 1:28 am)robvalue Wrote: Funny you should mention that. Most religious stories actually read to me like a being justifying to itself the fact that it's going to be extremely cruel to a nonstop stream of its hapless creations. Like the consciousness rationalising the subconscious.Written by people in a cruel and barbaric time with severe consequences for screwing up.
One would think a perfectly good God wouldn't suffer -- much less promote, such cruelty and barbarity ... yet according to their Holy Book, that's exactly what he does.
Funny, that.