(January 11, 2015 at 4:02 am)robvalue Wrote: Yes sir!
I agree the bible is a pile of shit, but you can't make the case that the church is teaching to not take it seriously. If stuff is bollocks, untrue and actually harmful rather than valuable, then the church could just take it out of the bible. But they refuse to do so because it is "gods word".
Just so you know, jesus was at best very loosely based on some preacher(s) around at the time, and almost his whole life story is mythical in nature: written after his death by non-eye witnesses. Jesus is a story, just as made up as the OT. And you may already agree with this but Christianity doesn't.
I'll make another thread in a while, I have to go polish my chainsaw a bit, eat some babies and swear at my ceiling.
I answered this in another thread so I made myself clear. I don't believe Paul and the apostles made a fictional character up in the much populated Jerusalem in danger of getting beaten, whipped, threatened, hated, crucified, beheaded just so they could write letters to people teaching them a better way to live. You'd have to be idiots of the highest class. One or two "so called" disciples gone retarded? Sure. But not 70
