RE: Bible talked in circles at start
January 2, 2022 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2022 at 2:44 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Bible talked in circles from the start because it is wrong from the start. The beginning is all about how life is hard and how people have to work hard just to survive, which was true until recently, but now we invented all these machines so that we don't have to work so hard to have some food. And, in the past, even with a lot of work the hunger and starvation were common.
Just take tractors that make plowing a child's game. No more tedious work with the oxen and sticks for days on end.
Now with all those machines, it seems that we ridicule the Bible and make it obsolete. So you can imagine if the Bible started with "Life is hard, but here is what you can do..." and give people some advanced instructions on how to ease their survival, instead of "Life is hard and it is all your fault."
Just take tractors that make plowing a child's game. No more tedious work with the oxen and sticks for days on end.
Now with all those machines, it seems that we ridicule the Bible and make it obsolete. So you can imagine if the Bible started with "Life is hard, but here is what you can do..." and give people some advanced instructions on how to ease their survival, instead of "Life is hard and it is all your fault."
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"
