(March 20, 2015 at 7:26 pm)Delicate Wrote: You can be an atheist and still admit that the Bible, as a collection, is a literary masterpiece. You don't have to be a theist to appreciate it as a piece of art and monument of culture.
Actually, I think it's a horrid book, even evaluated as a work of fiction. It has severe pacing problems, it's loaded down with needless detail, there's a lot of repetition, it has strange character motivations, it has a number of plot twists that are really disturbing, it isn't clear where it needs to be and don't get me started on all the Deos Es Machina. It's almost a textbook example of all the things NOT to do as an author.
It's about as bad as Vogon poetry.
Were it not regarded as the Word of God by so many people, this collection of badly written mythology would have been long forgotten.
The Bible is the second worst book I've ever read.
The first being the Koran. It makes the Bible look like Pulitzer material.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
