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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 8:08 am
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I read it once when I was trying to understand the god thing. I read it again after I realized the god thing was bullshit. There was a bit of skimming over the 'begot' pages. Whether or not there s a god, the babble-book has nothing to do with a true god, at best, only men pretending to be a god or men pretending there is a god.
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 9:28 am
I've read quite a bit of it, and I have no intention to read it all. So many great or more relevant things are on my reading list, and I get too little of it done as it is.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 9:32 am
I did read the bible. Some of my information just came from other christians, but I read the bible when I was young, and can always reference an online bible when I need something specific. I don't think I'll reread it cover to cover. Not that I've met many christians who even recommend doing that.
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 10:22 am
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I have read the entire book. As an avid reader and critical thinker, I could not accept the ill logic contained within as reality no matter how much I attempted to maintain a strong hold on faith.
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 10:54 am
If God wrote it, he was doing an impression of a complete moron who couldn't fit a toaster in a garage. He must deliberately want anyone examining it critically to think it's garbage, which is an odd strategy.
Have you read it all properly, right through, warrior?
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 10:57 am
I read enough. Anyone who does and isn't horrified wasn't paying attention.
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 11:03 am
(March 8, 2015 at 10:54 am)robvalue Wrote: If God wrote it, he was doing an impression of a complete moron who couldn't fit a toaster in a garage. He must deliberately want anyone examining it critically to think it's garbage, which is an odd strategy.
Have you read it all properly, right through, warrior?
It does say he likes to confound the wise, and reveal himself to the foolish, so is it any wonder why most people think christianity is foolish?
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 11:20 am
I've read Revelations, and how anyone can read that without thinking God is a blood-thirsty sadist is beyond me.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 11:38 am
In the old testament he floods the world, presumably to get rid of evil. Obviously it didn't work. In Revelations he's supposed to come back and do much the same thing, except save some extra people. Obviously he hasn't learned his lesson from the last time, and his promise not to flood the world is kind of moot when he says later he plans to burn it next time instead.
presumably when he made his rainbow promise, it should mean he wasn't planning to wipe out most Humans again, but apparently he just meant he wasn't going to wipe them out the same way again. How is that any better?
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RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 8, 2015 at 11:50 am
I've read the Jefferson bible. It's a nice story... But I don't see how it would be used to make anyone's life better... At least no more than any other book.
Many things that I've learned from reading the name of the rose have been beneficial to my life. You guys should read it too.
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