RE: Don't you just love the hypocrisy of religion.
July 13, 2017 at 4:37 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 4:39 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 12, 2017 at 3:48 pm)Dropship Wrote: Firstly, the word 'servant' translated from Greek is 'doulos' and can mean either a slave, servant, or bond-servant (similar to indentured servant).
Why stop there? Why not simply invent what ever word you want to be there considering there is no single authoritative Greek text from which all translations and versions of Bibles are made. At no time did the original manuscripts of the 27 books of the NT ever reside between the covers of one particular book. Nobody today has the original writings themselves, every book in the Bible was originally written on perishable materials which only lasted few years. All that survived are transcriptions of those texts that were constantly changed by scribes.
(July 12, 2017 at 3:48 pm)Dropship Wrote: And Moses bust an Egyptian slave-drivers ass
So what? Moses was far worse toward women and children whom he killed in many brutal ways, so does that mean he was generally against women and children? Well, perhaps considering he did say that people can sell their daughters as slaves and women in his laws are equated with slaves.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
