(July 18, 2011 at 3:16 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
I actually really like Monty Python, including that movie. It's not a blasphemy because it refers to Brian, so I'm okay with it. But what the heck does this have to do with this debate?
"It's there in black and white"
And so is many old scriptures, religious and non-religious. Take Shakespeare for example. If you read any of his plays with no knowledge of the language of old, you won't get a quarter of the entertainment value as you would have otherwise.
As for many of the cherry-picked passages in your posted video, much of them (all as I'm aware of) can be explained and elaborated on with a bit of Googling