| Poll: Have you ever read the Bible? This poll is closed. |
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| Never | 1 | 1.61% | |
| Bits and Pieces | 17 | 27.42% | |
| Most of it | 15 | 24.19% | |
| I have read the full bible | 29 | 46.77% | |
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 (March 19, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I did read the Bible. It's a far more complex piece of literature than both Christians and atheists give it credit for. Seriously dude? You need to stop generalizing. I've seen you do it over two or three threads, and it's not going to make you any friends around here. 
If by complex you mean hideously convoluted, appalingly contradictory and atrociously written, then I agree.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
It's construction sure was a complex process. An intricate web of deceit and stealing from other mythologies.
The content is just gibberish though, in my opinion. Feel free to send me a private message.
Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum  (March 19, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I did read the Bible. It's a far more complex piece of literature than both Christians and atheists give it credit for.I would be interested in your elaboration.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy 
More like convoluted than complex.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (March 19, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Stimbo Wrote: If by complex you mean hideously convoluted, appalingly contradictory and atrociously written, then I agree. Paints a pretty good image of Iron Age, not too well educated, desert dwellers though. Pimping out your daughters for gang rape, the collection of foreskins as a dowry, stoning your kids for disobedience and nice little genocides on the side. ![[Image: Bumper+Sticker+-+Asheville+-+Praise+Dog3.JPG]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-d-3rfdI7nG0%2FTerwtFyFXoI%2FAAAAAAAACak%2F7kFSmHeVrng%2Fs320%2FBumper%2BSticker%2B-%2BAsheville%2B-%2BPraise%2BDog3.JPG)
 (March 19, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I did read the Bible. It's a far more complex piece of literature than both Christians and atheists give it credit for. Complex maybe in the sense of "how is any of this supposed to make sense?" maybe...
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson  (March 19, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I did read the Bible. It's a far more complex piece of literature than both Christians and atheists give it credit for. I suppose if you try to make sense of it as a single book, it might be. But it isn't. It's a collection of loosely related books written over about 700 hundred years, give or take a century.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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Copenhagen School  Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (March 19, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I did read the Bible. It's a far more complex piece of literature than both Christians and atheists give it credit for. I'm curious as to how so. Given that last time I read the bible I found it to be an fairly simple piece of writing that uses very basic manipulationtechniques
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
The overall narrative of the book has to be the single most ridiculous story I have ever heard.
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