Misconceptions about the Bible

[Huggy Bear]

The bible doesn't say that slavery or rape are bad.

Let's not play dumb.

Forcing someone into slavery was punishable by death, and a few people in the bible have been punished for either rape or false accusations of rape... stop it.

[Data]

So tell me, are you atheist as you state in your profile or are you going for the slow burn?

You seem to argue for the Bible and religion more than against.

I never argue for or against anything other than truth. If theism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If atheism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If religion isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If science isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. I argue for truth, which is in all of those things to some degree. 

What's the slow burn?

[Data]

Let's not play dumb.

Well, that takes all of the fun out of it.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Let's not play dumb.

Forcing someone into slavery was punishable by death, and a few people in the bible have been punished for either rape or false accusations of rape... stop it.

She means a blanket condemnation of rape or slavery ......

[arewethereyet]

So tell me, are you atheist as you state in your profile or are you going for the slow burn?

You seem to argue for the Bible and religion more than against.

I never argue for or against anything other than truth. If theism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If atheism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If religion isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If science isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. I argue for truth, which is in all of those things to some degree. 

What's the slow burn?

You are all about truth and state you are atheist in your profile....interesting.

[arewethereyet]

The bible doesn't say that slavery or rape are bad.

Let's not play dumb.

Forcing someone into slavery was punishable by death, and a few people in the bible have been punished for either rape or false accusations of rape... stop it.

Did not see this coming...someone said slavery and Huggy shows up.

[Data]

I never argue for or against anything other than truth. If theism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If atheism isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If religion isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. If science isn't true, and it isn't, I don't argue for that. I argue for truth, which is in all of those things to some degree. 

What's the slow burn?

You are all about truth and state you are atheist in your profile....interesting.

Uh-huh. What's the slow burn?

[Data]

Let's not play dumb.

Forcing someone into slavery was punishable by death, and a few people in the bible have been punished for either rape or false accusations of rape... stop it.

Did not see this coming...someone said slavery and Huggy shows up.

You mean after all the white people?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Did not see this coming...someone said slavery and Huggy shows up.

You mean after all the white people?

Huggy has a habit of miraculously showing up whenever slavery or racism are mentioned

[Jehanne]

No literary scholar or author (including,  JK Rowling) would agree with you.  While it is true that Hamlet is the leading character of his play's namesake, that is where objectivity ends and subjectivity begins.

As for the Genesis account, virtually all Rabbis and other Christian scholars interpreted that text to mean literal days, at least until the Enlightenment.  Try as you may, the exceptions do not prove the rule.

What can I say? That's a really bad argument. In fact, it's a non-argument. An appeal to authority? Do you trust Rabbis and Christian scholars? I sure as hell don't. Anyway, it doesn't matter. If there was an argument by anyone against what I say, they would lose. Rabbi and Hebrew or Christian scholar. Unless, the merit is determined by tradition. What I say goes against tradition. Which has a piss-poor record of accuracy.

Well, gee, go to graduate school, get your PhD, and set the Academy straight. The Hebrews believed in a flat Earth, inherenting their cosmology from the Sumerians. Everyone knows this. The idea persisted throughout the New Testament all the way until the pre-Nicene fathers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

Later on when Christian scholars began to have more conduct with the Greeks did the idea of a flat Earth become more unfashionable. As for the Latin Vulgate, no major translation of the Bible is based upon that, the sole exception was the Douay–Rheims, which, outside of traditional Catholics, is read by hardly anyone