(February 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(February 26, 2015 at 8:54 am)robvalue Wrote: Parts of the bible confirmed to be false are metaphorical. The rest is literal, until any of that gets proven false too, then that part also become metaphorical.
Come on man. I'd have an easier time argueing Lord of the rings was a true story.
I've tried to read the bible several times. I can't really get much further than Genesis. It's just so fucking boring, and from the very first page it's clear that it was written and compiled by people who were just winging it. It's just a mishmash of nonsense and questionable genealogy. I'm astounded that it maintains its hold on people today.
I really hate the argument "Have you read it"? I got the same argument from an atheist when I told him Buddhism was as much bologna. "Have you studied it"?
All of them were started in an age of scientific ignorance. How much of a comic book do you have to read before you realize it is a comic book. Religion is a result of gap filling, a flaw in humans perceptions. It is good for creating groups for resources and numbers, but it is still a sugar pill.
There is not one thing in any religion that depicts good acts or explains our bad acts as a species. They all are attempts at explaining life. But life is explained by our evolution, not the artificial clubs humans invent.
Lots of atheists and Buddhists like to claim Buddhism is atheistic. That is no different than claiming Jews can be atheists. Yes you can find Jews who like the religion and the rituals who don't believe in a god.
But, Asia and the Orient are full of Buddhists, from Japan to China and still contain different sects that have their own superstitions. Reincarnation, Karma, and "nats"=spirits. Buddhism is not superstition free.
