Trust the Bible not Science

[abaris]

The Bible on the other hand, never changes.

You gotta admit he's right about that. It was pigshit when it was written and it remains pigshit.

But the particular pile is the result of what I like to call the Constantinian buttkissing party, otherwise known as the Council of Nicaea. There the Christian bigheads of the time made a herculean effort to enter der emperor's hindparts and decided what's supposed to be in the bible and what isn't opportune anymore.

The result: They almost changed everything about their believes. From being a pacifist cult that called for their members to refrain from military service, they now endorsed the idea of a christian army. From being opposed to capital punishment, they now embraced it.

What's more, bible study was forbidden throughout the Middle Ages by a dcree at the council of Toulouse in 1229: Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.