(December 29, 2014 at 12:10 am)Drich Wrote: I like the book of revelation. Why? Because it's something we all get to look forward to. Meaning the harder you all work at being atheist the faster the cup of man's iniquity gets filled triggering the end time events. Who know maybe most of us/you will get to see what it was john was trying to describe. We've Got to remember that revelation was not written as a book of prophesy, but as a historical account of what John saw and his best efforts to describe it.I wouldn't mind a hit from whatever John was smoking, that stuff must have been pretty potent. Definitely wasn't weed, though, because man his visions were crazy!
As for violent parts of the Bible, I nominate Numbers 25:6-13...
Quote:Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.Kid grabs a spear and drives it right through two people and god is like "THAT'S MAH BOY" and ironically makes a PEACE covenant with him. And heaven reverberated with the sound of many lulz.
The Lord said to Moses, “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
