(November 21, 2022 at 8:46 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Of course, it’s easy for us with our 21st Century, materialistic minds to dismiss the Bible as a load of rubbish. But in the actual analysis, that is exactly what the Bible turns out to be---a load of rubbish! It is a book of nonsensical, fantastic stories about talking animals, talking bushes, mythical creatures, people rising from the dead, magic and pseudo-history. It is the creation of ignorant, fallible men, reflecting the prejudices, superstitions, bad theology and fears of the times in which it was written. It promotes slavery, ethnic cleansing, race prejudice, wars of conquest, the subjugation of women, child abuse and genital mutilation. It promotes the worship and celebration of a god who is little more than an egotistical, homicidal, fear-mongering tyrant. It is a book which any reasonable, intellectually honest, and intelligent person should heartily dismiss as bad fiction.
The Bible is all that but it is also authentic.
It gives us a glimpse into what was happening to the jews and the people they were interacting with.
It is a product of its time.
It is too bad that the authors had their religious glasses on and they were distorting the history they were observing. Apparently, the jews did not have secular historians. It is line after line about god this and god that.
In the case of armenians, some of the authors recorded history with their religious glasses on but there is also secular historians.
I'm sure that many other cultures have properly recorded their history as well.
It is a shame that so many europeans waste their time taking this religion seriously and they don't give as much importance to real history.
Look at all the religious channels and shows in the USA, all the teleevangelists talking nonsense such as Jim Bakker.
It is a product of its time but some of these guys want to turn the USA into a theocracy ruled by their version of their christianity.
