(March 12, 2015 at 11:07 am)Nestor Wrote:(March 12, 2015 at 3:25 am)robvalue Wrote: They think the bible is divinely inspired, but partly untrue? Well, I can only conclude they think that God gets things wrong then. The fact that he did so in the only reference we have about him makes God seem doubly stupid.
What your friend really means (in my opinion) is that they like the idea that it's divinely inspired, but they are still going to ignore bits that don't line up with their own morality. You know, what every religious theist does.
In other words, the Bible was inspired...by some unknown homophobic ignoramus.
Well, it mirrors what I stated the other day about how God may have been a real person who just happened to have the capacity to think for himself, able to read and write too. Just like animals, every single group has an hierarchy, where there is a leader and the rest just follow without questioning his orders. However, just as Richard Dawkins quite rightly pointed out in one of his books, there will always be someone who is second in command who believes he can challenge the leader at some point and try to take over the leadership. Is it very possible that both God and Satan were in fact real people; and Satan was in someway, a free thinker, who was thrown out of gods particular group because he didn't fit in?
Again, the role of the leader is to make sure there is a united group, where everyone agrees and does not question anything that the leader says, and this is where religion comes in, by targetting the weak-willed. Once he has established all power over his followers (why not call it a gang) he has nothing else to worry about. Which brings me to my other point, where Stephen Fry spoke about AIDS and condoms in Uganda. The fact that Pope Jean Paul II was able to let the Ugandans know that they could catch AIDS by wearing condoms and the way he did it was incredible. They people actually believed it. This is the sort of brainwashing bollocks (sorry for swearing), that needs to be sorted out.
