RE: The Great Flood
November 8, 2008 at 12:35 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2008 at 12:40 am by Daystar.)
(November 8, 2008 at 12:24 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Have YOU read The God Delusion?
And also, if and when I read the whole of the bible, I doubt my own personal arguments directed to it would change your mind much. Rather than what I know of it through TGD.
At the moment I consider it a waste of time. Perhaps you would consider reading the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster a waste of time for much the same reasons?
I have not read The God Delusion.
It isn't about changing my or anyone elses mind. If that is what I seem to be implying that is my mistake. I don't want to change anyones mind. I don't know about reading the Flying Speghetti Monster ... probably not, unless there were some actual parody or meaning behind it. I have read the Quran, Bhagavad-Gita, Dhammapada, Nihongi, Pirque Aboth, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu ... education doesn't imply lobotomy, quite the opposite.
(November 8, 2008 at 12:26 am)Tiberius Wrote: The point is Daystar, that none of us want to be educated on the Bible, because whatever you say will be rejected by the countless other believers since they have interpreted it differently. We do know about the Bible. I have in fact read the Bible (I used to be a Christian...wow!), so don't claim that we know nothing about it. What we know is different from what you know because we were taught differently, and now we read the Bible with a critical mind (every book deserves criticism).
So instead of all these pointless lessons which nobody is interested in, why don't you stick to arguing why we should believe the Bible?
You don't get it, do you? You really don't get it. You should believe or not believe in the Bible because you know it well enough.
I teach these pointless lessons to Xian and Atheist. It is all the same - oddly enough, they do both tend to react the same.

Okay. I'm done. I have said all I need to say about it. You know how I feel.