RE: Does anybody else feel sorry for religious people?
February 1, 2015 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2015 at 4:21 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
First, I think calling them "scriptures" is horseshit. I cannot remember the poster here who mentioned it a few months back but he or she made a great point in that calling them "scriptures" essentially gilds the lily.
The Bible is an anthology, composed by primitive folk who didn't know shit from shinola about the world, cobbled together by the vote of men hundreds of years later in order to achieve political aims. It's good to read through it for that. But reading it for the purpose of finding truth is silly. You'd be much better off actually spending your Sunday mornings hosting a brunch for your friends, with the idea that they bring friends along as well; or going to the zoo, and learning something about the interrelationship of all living things; or going on a nice country drive with your lover. Each of those things, and many more I could name, will teach you at least as much as listening to some windbag lecture you about the "Good News" that you're going to die and be judged by a cruel, capricious, and evil deity who doesn't even exist.
Relax. This is the only life you have. Don't waste an hour of it in a goddamned pew.
Also, Rob's right: atheists tend to know the Bible much better than the adherents of said bullsh -- er, book.
The Bible is an anthology, composed by primitive folk who didn't know shit from shinola about the world, cobbled together by the vote of men hundreds of years later in order to achieve political aims. It's good to read through it for that. But reading it for the purpose of finding truth is silly. You'd be much better off actually spending your Sunday mornings hosting a brunch for your friends, with the idea that they bring friends along as well; or going to the zoo, and learning something about the interrelationship of all living things; or going on a nice country drive with your lover. Each of those things, and many more I could name, will teach you at least as much as listening to some windbag lecture you about the "Good News" that you're going to die and be judged by a cruel, capricious, and evil deity who doesn't even exist.
Relax. This is the only life you have. Don't waste an hour of it in a goddamned pew.
Also, Rob's right: atheists tend to know the Bible much better than the adherents of said bullsh -- er, book.
